Who is Reverend Eric Lee? Please help us dig… (UPDATED)
UPDATE – I was asked where I found evidence of Lee attending the ANSWER rally, and evidence of his contributions to Maxine Waters:
Here is the Rally announcement: http://tinyurl.com/6cfvez
Go here, and search for Eric Lee of Inglewood, CA for the campaign contributions:
http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/fecimg/advindsea.html
UPDATE – Thank Malkin , Hot Air, RedState, and Roger Simon for picking up on the story. (And thanks to Hot Air and RedState for the links! And Malkin, for posting her trackbacks. Welcome! feel free to look around, check the archives… and perhaps subscribe via the fantastic RSS icon on the right. Hope you enjoy the content!)
Please keep digging on Rev. Lee!
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Daphna Ziman, a Jewish philanthropist, was attending an event Monday night during which she was honored by Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity for her work with at-risk African-American children.
Following Ms. Ziman’s speech, the keynote speaker — Reverend Eric Lee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — said the following, according to Ms. Ziman herself:
“He began his speech by thanking Jesus for Obama, who is going to be the leader of the world. He continued by referring to other leaders Like Dr. King,being that this was the moment of celebrating Dr. King’s spirit on the anniversary of his death, and Malcolm X.
It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right at me and 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 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”
He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them.(meaning the jews).
He continued to speak about ‘ White supremecy’ vs the talents and visionaries in the core of African Americans. He demeaned being given freedom, by saying “To what?” to a country that kills women and children.
I could no longer be polite and sit in front of the crowd, so I walked out.
Members of the fraternity ran after me as did my staff, I was not able to contain my tears and I cried.”
I have found the following: Rev. Lee was a keynote speaker at ANSWER’s 3/15/08 antiwar rally, along with CAIR and some other lovely individuals:
Mass Peace March and Rally on 5th Anniversary of Iraq War
WHAT: Peace March and Rally
WHEN: Saturday, March 15th, 12 p.m. (noon)
WHERE: Hollywood & Vine
WHY: Former Congresswoman and Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and
others will speak to thousands at a rally following a mass march through the
streets of Hollywood that will culminate in front of CNN.
WHO: Initiated by the ANSWER Coalition, speakers and endorsers include Paul
Haggis, Academy award-winning director (”In the Valley of Elah”); Ron Kovic,
Vietnam veteran, author “Born on the 4th of July;” Gore Vidal, novelist,
essayist, playwright and social critic; Sharaf Mowjood, Council on
American-Islamic Relations; Rev. Eric Lee, Southern Christian Leadership
Conference; Rev. Neil Thomas, Metropolitan Community Church-Los Angeles;
National Council of Arab Americans, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor,
Office of the Americas, Youth and Student ANSWER, United Teachers Los
Angles, and many more.
I have not yet found records of his or of SCLC LA’s campaign contributions, other than a personal donation to Maxine Waters.
Anyone want to help me dig?
Who knew about Reverend Lee? Who tolerated him? Who gave him money? Who gave him a job?
Who is now responsible for firing him?
http://standwithus.com/app/iNews/view.asp?ID=350
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:05 am
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April 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
We covered this today, with a fundamental question at the heart of our article: Does Daphna Ziman recognize the Source of the Problem? Does she know that, while all blacks who are on the political left are not anti-Semitic, all blacks who are anti-Semitic ARE ON THE POLITICAL LEFT?And does she know the history behind all of this?