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If it weren't for slavery, Kimberly Daniels might be somewhere in Africa, worshipping a tree. That's according to Daniels herself, a city council candidate in Jacksonville, Florida and a longtime minister who's taking heat after video clip of her controversial sermons was posted online.
Daniels, a Democrat running for a seat on the Jacksonville City Council in a runoff election May 17, has spoken openly about her past, which she says includes prostitution and drugs. But she only gained national attention after Truth Wins Out, a liberal group that fights anti-LGBT bias, posted a portion of one of her sermons online in which she made controversial remarks about slavery and Jewish people.
"I thank God for slavery," she says on the Truth Wins Out video during one sermon. "I thank God for the crack house. If it wasn't for the crack house, God wouldn't use me the way he is using me. And if it wasn't for slavery, I might be somewhere in Africa worshiping a tree." In another clip, the bombastic candidate addresses Jewish people. "You can talk about the Holocaust, but the Jews own everything," she says.
The video is edited, however, and Daniels says the remarks on Jewish people were taken out of context. "It was meant to be positive. Because the Bible says God blesses those who blessed Israel," she told Fox30/Jax.com. Daniels could not be reached for comment today.
But Truth Wins Out says that response isn't good enough. "There is nothing she can say that would erase and change what she has said about Jewish and gay people," Wayne Besen, the group's executive director, told First Coast News. "She has no excuse," he said, "When you say things like that, you need to step down."
African American Ministers in Action, a liberal network of clergy affiliated with People for the American Way, asked voters not to show support for Daniels. "At African American Ministers in Action, our hope is that Americans will always have the opportunity to elect public officials who stand for respect and liberty, fairness and equality, and treat all people with the dignity that they deserve," Leslie Watson Malachi, the group's director, said in a statement. "We are disheartened by the advancement of a candidate who has instead chosen to be a voice of fear and intolerance. The people of Jacksonville deserve better."
Daniels' challenger, Republican David Taylor, could not be reached for comment.
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By: george on 4/22/2011 5:20PM
Black women nearly kill white woman in a McDonald's while black employees do nothing and actually warn the black women to get out before police arrive:
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You won't see this story from any mainstream media, it took the Drudge Report to put it on the internet. These black on white violence stories are now DAILY occurrences. But the mainstream media will not ever mention the race of the aggressors, that would be "racist" and not politically correct.
Imagine if it had been whites beating a black woman, it would be national headlines with the DOJ intervening and investigating. But it being black on white violence, the blacks will get away scot free, when they should be charged with attempted murder. And I'm talking about the black employees as well, who should not only be fired but charged as criminal accessories to attempted murder. The black employees could have at least locked the doors to keep the black women in until police arrived, instead they helped them escape.
If blacks think this kind of injustice against whites can continue without major BLOWBACK coming you are sadly mistaken. As an imperiled white, I guarantee to you I carry a GUN everywhere and will be happy to use it to defend myself or other whites against black violence. It takes multiple stories like this one to get other whites and asians to also carry guns to protect themselves. They have to, the police won't protect white people, that would be "racist".
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By: mancha de platano on 4/22/2011 10:47PM
you haven't watched Identafication Discovery Channel~You wrote a lot about how you feel, which is a lot of hatred. I hope you realize that when you're pointing the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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By: Cassaundra Gittens on 4/25/2011 7:19AM
I think it is sad that any attack on someone is NEWS. Once again violence of any form, is disgusting. Violence based on ignorance is even less palatable. Everyone who was involved in that fight should be terminated and even prosecuted. Yes, I think the media should have covered it. I also think that councilwoman in this story should be made to step down. If she was white we wouldn't accept it, so why tolerate it from our own? If we want better we also have to be better. Period. Disgusting.
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By: mancha de platano on 4/23/2011 12:26PM
geta life
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By: LG on 4/24/2011 1:19PM
I AGREE WITH MOSTB OF YOUR COMMENT,BUT WERE ARE YOUR COMMENTS WHEN BLACKS ARE ATTACKED,IF YOU EXPECT FAIRNESS
YOU SHOULD STEP UP NOT ONLY WHEN U FEEL WHITES
ARE ATTACKED.
IT LEGITIMZES YOUR OPINION
BY THE WAY I AM BLACK, SOME OF YOUR COMMENT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR MAD BECAUSE SHE WONT PICK YOUR COTTON FOR U
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By: orlndallgood on 4/23/2011 6:10PM
It is About Time, God word is True, You Reap what You Sow, Choose Jesus!!!!
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By: Focus on 4/23/2011 11:06PM
Are you telling the posters on this page that you have proclaimed yourself to be a "White Savior" for every white person who has a crime committed against him/her by a non-white person? If so, that's already in your heart. Stop making excuses and giving examples of current news to justify the hate already in your heart.
You have already made up in your mind that you do not like black folks and will find a way for revenge by finding a story to follow. Get the heck out of here.
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By: Madmax on 4/24/2011 7:07AM
I'm not surprised that the Drudge Report, et al, are using reports of white crime victims, to support his agenda of instilling fear in whites, by showing them as victims of minority crime. This is part of the latest "strategy" to instill "voter's regret" in white voters, to make it appear that if they voted for President Obama, they voted against their own safety and their own interests. The man who claims to be carrying around a gun, because he believes it will protect him, is ignoring the facts about gun ownership. He is more likely to kill himself, of be killed by his own gun, that to use the gun to protect himself. The gun is more likely to be stolen than anything he owns and used in a crime. His children (if he has any) are far more likeley to be killed or injured by his gun, or take the gun to school and kill or injure a fellow student, than the gun is to be used in self-defense. These Hollywood-gun-inspired-Clint-Eastwood fantasies, are making people who would ordinarily use their brains to avoid trouble, to believe that somehow, merely owning or carrying a gun will make them safer. The facts point otherwise.
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By: sincere on 4/24/2011 10:06AM
You sound like a Dam fool as much blood white people have on there hands from the past and present day murders of innocent blacks that never went public and still doesnt go public. Now that the hunter is hunted by the game you want to use this situation to promote your silly racism. Lets get it straight i dont condone violence on any level towards any race but dont make this a one way street george (you racist mf) have a good day clown!
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By: mancha de platano on 4/24/2011 12:03PM
get a life
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