Jersey City’s mayor called on Tuesday for a school board member to resign over a Facebook post in which she called Jews who had moved to the city “brutes” and suggested a deeper “message” to the deadly attack at a kosher market there last week. The mayor, Steven Fulop, was reacting to remarks posted online over the weekend by the board member, Joan Terrell-Paige, who is black. “Where was all this faith and hope when Black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the jewish community,” Ms. Terrell-Paige wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. Ms. Terrell-Paige was elected to the school board in November 2018. “That type of language has no place in our schools and no place amongst elected officials.”

Source: New York Times December 18, 2019 01:19 UTC