Rev. Lee’s Antisemitic diatribe and Daphna Ziman’s ‘reception’ at the L.A. Kappa Alpha Psi MLK Awards dinner
comment by Jerry Gordon
On April 4th, Daphna Ziman, an Israeli American music industry entrepreneur and philanthropist was scheduled to receive an honor at the Kappa Alpha Psi Afro American service fraternity awards dinner in Los Angeles on April 4th that fell on the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis Tennessee. A Rev. Lee spoke at the dinner, he created an uproar and controversy with his racist and Antisemitic remarks. This honor for Ziman turned into a dishonor to both her and those Afro Americans present who disagreed with Rev. Lee’s remarks. Ziman, offended by Rev. Lee’s remarks walked out in tears at her ‘reception’.
When she regained her composure Ziman sat for an interview with Roger Simon , CEO of PajamasMedia. Watch the interview here.
You can also question why Rev. Wright has been invited to speak at the Detroit branch of the NAACP on April 27th with the theme of ” A Change is Going to Come.” The Detroit NAACP spokesperson LaToya Henry lauded Pastor Wright with these remarks in an email: LaToya Henry, the chapter’s communications coordinator, expanded on the invite in an e-mail to Times reporter Ben DuBose. Wright, she said, “has challenged the nation, challenged our comfort zone and stimulated nation-wide discussion on the issues of how we must move forward together as both a nation and a people. We look forward to his participation” at the NAACP gathering.The nation, she said, “is at a crossroads as it relates to the ultimate direction we will take politically, socially and in race relations…. As we prepare for the challenges that we face not only today but as we seek to come together and understand each other as a people for tomorrow, we believe … that this is a key moment in history to take it to the next level.”
That corroborates Ziman allegations about the rising danger of a nationally divisive black racism and antisemitic libel.
Roger Simon and Daphne Ziman are to be commended for this interview and her speaking plainly about black racism in America. A racism that is corrosive and acquiesced by Obama and his Jewish campaign manipulators and advisers, unfortunately.
Read Roger Sherman’s PajamasMedia story and watch the video interview with Ms. Ziman. It is a most disturbing. The episode is a cautionary tale and one that begs for repudiation of Rev. Lee and Rev. Wright by Senator Obama, and leaders of the American Afro American Establishment.
Dr. King, if he were alive today would doubtless issue a thundering jeremiad against such divisive and hate filled behavior directed towards American Jews who were allies in the Civil rights movement in the US. Instead we have libelous Antisemism.
Reverend Eric Lee’s Anti-Semitism: A Personal Story [video]
by Roger Simon, Pajamas Media, April 9, 2008
On April 4, 2008, at a Los Angeles event commemorating the assassination of Martin Luther King, the African-American fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi gave Israeli-American Daphna Ziman its Tom Bradley Award for community service. Then the event’s keynote speaker, Reverend Eric Lee, turned to Ms. Ziman and launched an anti-Semitic diatribe. Roger L. Simon interviewed Ms. Ziman.
A Los Angeles event held by Kappa Alpha Psi—the national African-American fraternity—on April 4, the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, was reportedly marred by a disturbing incident of anti-Semitism by its keynote speaker – Reverend Eric Lee.
With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Councilman Bernard Parks, State Senator Mark Ridley Thomas and Assemblyman Mike Davis in attendance (and also winning awards in some instances) at the Marriott Hotel conference, the fraternity had just given its Tom Bradley Award—named for the esteemed former Los Angeles mayor—to Israeli-American Daphna Ziman.
Ziman is the founder and volunteer chairwoman of Children Uniting Nations—an organization devoted to the rights of children. CUN has helped children from Kosovo to the American inner cities, focusing especially on mentoring programs for children from Los Angeles broken homes. Ziman has also been a fundraiser and donor to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
After Ziman received her award, Reverend Lee, who is the President/CEO of the Los Angeles branch of Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, began his keynote speech. In the midst of this, after praising Malcolm X, he started staring directly at Ziman, according to an email she sent.
Ziman’s email states “[Lee] started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the Jews that have featured them as rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then corrected himself to say ‘What other kind of Rabbis are there, but Jews.’ He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he would like to bring the AA [African-American] community and the Jewish community together. ‘NO, NO, NO!!!!’ he shouted into the crowd, ‘we are not going to come together. The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are economically enslaving us.’”
(An attempt to revive the “Black-Jewish Connection” is currently underway in Los Angeles, according to the L. A. Watts Times.)
Lee continued with his anti-Semitic diatribe, according to Ziman, at which time she could no longer tolerate it and left the room, where she broke into tears.
Most of the dignitaries had also left the room by the time of Lee’s speech but Assemblyman Mike Davis was still there. He told Ziman that he “did not hear” Lee’s words because he was engaged in another conversation. Mr. Davis did not return a call from Pajamas Media, seeking comment. Calls to organizers of the event were also not returned.
An African-American attorney who works in the area of foster care and was in the audience did speak with Pajamas Media. The attorney, who preferred not to be quoted by name, basically corroborated Ziman’s account, saying that Lee’s remarks were in essence racist and inappropriate to the occasion, even more so since Ziman was receiving an award from the fraternity.
Daphna Ziman has asked for Reverend Lee to make a public apology to the Jewish community.
Roger L. Simon is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter, novelist, blogger and CEO of Pajamas Media.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:05 • Daphna Ziman • Kappa Alpha Psi Afro American Service fraternity awards • Los Angeles • rev. Lee Antisemtic diatribe • PajamasMedia • Roger Simon video interview • 0 Comments •
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