Posted by Steven Glazer, Urban Times News on May 30, 2003 at 16:42:47:

NAACP BLASTS HCDO’S RACIST CAMPAIGN MAILERS

Urban times News
By Steven Glazer –email: sglazer@urbantimesnews.com

Video Clip and NAACP Statement

Jersey City—Rex Reed, Jersey City NAACP Vice President denounced “subliminal racism” in campaign literature distributed by the Hudson County Democratic Organization in the current campaign for the primary election here in Jersey City and the State’s 31st legislative district. The offending campaign materials, mostly mailers, sent in bulk to residents of the district including Jersey City’ s predominantly African American Ward F, depict middle class whites being victimized by a lawless, fiscally irresponsible black elected official, said Reed. Reed demanded that the HCDO apologize to the African American residents of the 31st legislative district. Reed also called on Governor James McGreevey to denounce the what Reed termed race baiting tactics of the HCDO as head of the State’s Democratic Party.

Jersey City’s Ward F is the single largest block of votes in the contested 31st legislative district. Its residents are almost entirely African American. Kabily Tayari, President of the Jersey City Chapter of the NAACP said, “This shows that at best, they just were not thinking. What could they be thinking about to send glossy mailers of a middle class, elderly white couple in their homes while a villainous-looking African American man lurks and threatens, to an African American neighborhood? If this is the way that they run a campaign, imagine how will they run a government?”

One mailer shows an older white couple and the outside of their home that one critic said looked like the opening scene from the old Archie Bunker TV show, “All in the Family.” Inside the house the couple looks concerned reviewing documents, presumably of financial nature with the legend “seniors ‘Getting Slaughtered…Protect our families from high tax schemes.” Next to the words “Protect our families from…” is the photograph of the African American candidate blamed, by inference, for fiscal irresponsibility. Reed distributed examples of the mailers and said that “This is not about who you support, this is about right and wrong. No person’s ethnicity should be used to vilify them. The HCDO is asking voters to vote against a candidate based on color. ”

NAACP representatives were indignant that the local daily, the Jersey Journal did not send a reporter or a photographer to the press conference, less than one mile from their newsroom, with ample prior notice.

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