Associated Press New York City Mayor Eric Adams compared an 84-year-old woman who escaped the Holocaust to a âplantationâ owner after she complained about rising rents at a town hall meeting in the Washington Heights neighborhood Wednesday. Jeanie Dubnau was born in Belgium after her parents fled Nazi Germany. She is well known in New
Eric Adams compares woman complaining about rent to plantation owner
June 29, 2023 by
Mayor Eric Adams compared a white woman to a plantation owner Wednesday â when she complained at a public event about rent increases in the Big Apple. The showdown took place at a community conversation event Adams hosted at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics in Washington Heights. In footage from the meeting, […]
College Basketball Coach Apologizes for Telling Team to ‘Stay on the Plantation’
March 3, 2021 by
A college basketball coach is apologizing after using an analogy during a recent locker room talk in which he told his players that they needed to âstay on the plantation.â Creighton menâs basketball coach Greg McDermott made the comments following a tough loss to Xavier last week. McDermott apologized for the remarks in a statement…
Kanye West In New Song: Black People Still Arenât âOff The Plantationâ Of Being Democrats.
April 29, 2018 by
Rap star Kanye West says in a new song that black Americans still arenât âoff the plantationâ of thinking they must be Democrats. West says, âThatâs the problem with this damn nation, all blacks gotta be Democrats, man, we ainât made it off the plantation.â This lyric is part of an upcoming song he has […]