By Shane Goldmacher
Some
of New York’s top black Democrats were among the dozens who rallied on
the streets of Harlem on Monday to show their support for Senator Andrea
Stewart-Cousins, the state Senate minority leader, and criticize a
hedge fund manager who had attacked her using racially inflammatory language.
The
hedge fund manager, Daniel S. Loeb, one of the state’s most prolific
political donors, said in a Facebook posting last week that Ms.
Stewart-Cousins was worse for minorities than “anyone who has ever
donned a hood” because of her support for teachers’ unions. Mr. Loeb has
since deleted the post and apologized.
But the images from Charlottesville, Va.,
over the weekend — of white supremacists clashing with protesters in an
American city — threw into sharper relief Mr. Loeb’s racially charged
analogy.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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