Ethics

Rank Anti-Semitism from a Black Church Pastor

By Ed Brayton

This is a vile story. In a battle for a congressional seat from the Memphis area, the incumbent, Steve Cohen, is being assailed by blatantly anti-semitic fliers distributed by a black minister from a church that isn't even in his district.

"Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen and the JEWS HATE Jesus," blares the flier, which Cohen himself received in the mail -- inducing gasps -- last week.

Circulated by an African-American minister from Murfreesboro Tenn., which isn't even in Cohen's district, the literature encourages other black leaders in Memphis to "see to it that one and ONLY one black Christian faces this opponent of Christ and Christianity in the 2008 election."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).