Monday,
May 07, 2007
Rep
The ANNOTICO Report
Rep
Peter J.
Biondi a
Republican member of the New Jersey General Assembly (16th district ) since 1998. He has served as the Republican
Conference Leader since 2006 and was the Assembly's Assistant Republican Leader
from 2002-2003.
Mr. Biondi
forwarded Emails in December and February that were supposedly considered
"racially offensive", against blacks,
one that Jesse Jackson was the target of. Biondi was perfuse
in his apologies to the Ministers and Leaders of the Black Community, who
responded I believe thoughtfully, by stating, "We have not asked him to step
down. We asked him to step up,", and "We don't intend to kill the
messenger. We intended to kill the message."
It is politically correct to
"apologize", BUT, I wonder how many of us INCLUDING Blacks
could undergo an examination of their forwarded jokes, or any communications,
that did not "make fun of" WHITES as "Rednecks, White
Trash, Hillbillies, Okies, Trailer Trash," and
in the case of ITALIANS "Wop, Dago, Guinea, Mafia, Spaghetti Benders, Meat
Ball Suckers' .
But, more important,
any Italian American who ever makes a misstep of this nature, to ANY
GROUP, should turn "Adversity" into "
(1) First apologize, THEN,
point out he understands how they feel, since He as an Italian American is
one of the few Targets of Bigotry that are Tolerated.
(2) He would impart to them
that defamatory, degrading, and distorted negative images of Italian Americans
"flood" the Movies, TV, and Newspapers, with "impunity".
They are hurtful to him personally, and have a harmful effect on the
esteem of his children.
(3) Do they Not also think that is wrong? Will THEY join with him to Mutually condemn ALL Defamation, Degradation, and
Disparagement? Anti Black AND Anti Italian
??????
In this case, If not, Then
tell them AT LEAST they could better utilize their Efforts and get a greater
Return, and rather than "mobilizing" to repair the "so
called" damage of his foul language written in private
to a few friends, IF THEY focused on "Rappers" and
their message of Niggers, Ho's, Misogyny, (explain it to them), and Violence
that sells hundreds of Millions of Records, and POISONS
Millions of Minds !!!!!!
Thanks to The Alfano Digest
By Dunstan McNichol and Ralph
Ortega
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Stepping up efforts to
control the political damage from revelations he circulated two racially
offensive jokes by e-mail last winter, Assemblyman Peter Biondi spoke with Rev.
Jesse Jackson in
After the meeting in
Franklin Township, the Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, senior pastor of the church and former Secretary
of State, said the ministers had won promises from Biondi (R-Somerset) to
apologize to the full Assembly and use his influence as a lawmaker to work
against racism and lobby for social issues important to the ministers.
"We could have asked
him to step down. We asked him to step up," Soaries
said, adding he does not think the ministers have the political clout in Biondi's
"We didn't intend to
kill the messenger. We intended to kill the message," added Rev. Eddie Aikens, pastor of
Five ministers attended
the one-hour meeting at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Garden, and two
more, including Rev. Reginald Jackson of the Black Ministers' Council of New
Jersey, participated by phone.
It capped the second day
Biondi has spent defending his credentials for racial tolerance after an
anonymous mailing that included copies of the two ribald and racist jokes the
assemblyman had received by e-mail and forwarded to friends in the Hillsborough
political community in December and February.
Hours before his meeting
with the ministers, Biondi had spoken by telephone with Rev. Jesse Jackson, the
subject of one of the jokes the Assemblyman had passed along.
"I offered a personal
apology," Biondi, the second-ranking Republican in the state Assembly,
said of his 4 p.m. call to
"I just hope there
will be some kind of ethical standard, so when this type of degradation occurs
there will be sufficient response to deter it,"
"A group of his peers
would be in the best position to determine whether it was an accident or a
pattern," added
"In the case of Imus, this was not a slip of the lip, this was a
pattern," he said.
Biondi, who has been an
Assemblyman for nine years, is a member of the Legislature's Joint Committee on
Ethical Standards, which is scheduled to meet in
Biondi reached out to
Jackson and other prominent black leaders yesterday.
"I'm taking it very
seriously," he said. "Anyone that knows me knows that's not me."
Soaries' church, which features a main
sanctuary that seats 2,000, is a landmark in the community. While the ministers
met with Biondi in private, members of the congregation participating in the
various activities under way throughout the church expressed disgust at the
Assemblyman's actions.
"It's a shame,"
said Ernestine Winfrey, 68, a minister and grandmother. "People can spend
time and money to spread that filth, and they don't have the time and money to
spread the good things."
Jackson, who is founder
and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, said he was puzzled
why a
"I'm just startled
why I would be the object of a degrading joke," he said.
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