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WaPo: St Petersburg, Florida Mayoral Candidate tells audience to "Go back to Africa"

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Paul Congemi insists that he doesn’t want all black people to go back to Africa; just a specific group of black people who have been trying to make reparations a political issue in St. Petersburg — and who, he said, heckled him at a mayoral forum in the Florida city.

Congemi, 60, a Republican long-shot in St. Petersburg’s mayoral race, seized headlines at Tuesday’s forum with his invective, which was laced with Barack Obama references and suggestions about Florida-to-Africa flight plans.

“Mr. Nevel, you and your people talk about reparations,” he said, mentioning Jesse Nevel, a white campaign opponent who heads a group calling for reparations for African Americans. “The reparations that you talk about, Mr. Nevel, your people already got your reparations. Your reparations came in the form of a man named Barack Obama.”

He added: “My advice to you, if you don’t like it here in America, planes leave every hour from Tampa airport. Go back to Africa. Go back to Africa. Go back!”

Nevel’s campaign is backed by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, which believes reparations can begin to mend racial inequality. Nevel has also highlighted other racially tinged issues, including gentrification and police violence against minorities. His campaign slogan: “Unity Through Reparations.”

But Congemi, who is also white, told The Washington Post that Nevel and the group that backs him lack real solutions and are “unhappy about the whole system in America.”

Conversely, he said, he has “nothing against African Americans who are doing their best here in America.”

[A teen spread a racist video of a black classmate eating chicken. Both face criminal charges.]

“I had never met Jesse Nevel until last night,” Congemi said on Wednesday. “It’s obvious he is a self-hating white man.”

While Nevel conceded that he is indeed white, he told The Post that he sees paying reparations and rectifying other race-based disparities as the first steps to healing many class and social issues.

It is not, he said, frivolous complaining.

As The Post’s Max Ehrenfreund reported, a United Nations panel last year declared that the United States owed African Americans reparations for the country’s history of “enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality.”

The nonbinding declaration added fuel to the debate about what the United States can do to make up for racial inequalities that are a legacy of the nation’s racist past.

Congemi’s acerbic comment, Nevel said, “reflects a segment of my community. I’ve met plenty of other people who feel that way. That’s why I feel that it’s important for those of us in the white community to take a public stand with reparations.”

Congemi told The Post he was a lifelong Democrat who switched allegiances after then-President Barack Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage.

Now, he’s a Republican and a Trump supporter.

He said he believes homosexuality is immoral and criticized incumbent mayor Rick Kriseman, a Democrat, for taking part in St. Petersburg’s gay pride parade and flying the pride flag over city hall.

“I’m not politically correct,” Congemi said.
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More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ons-go-back-to-africa/?utm_term=.28bf89ddea15


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SamuelSupreme

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No white person in the history of America has any right to tell any individual to go back to Africa. That shit is infuriating and hypocritical.
 
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Socivol

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To people that say that I just want to know are they paying for the plane tickets and living expenses because if so I would gladly go "back" to Africa a continent that I am not even from.
 
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Kusagari

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Congemi told The Post he was a lifelong Democrat who switched allegiances after then-President Barack Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage.

Now, he’s a Republican and a Trump supporter.

He said he believes homosexuality is immoral and criticized incumbent mayor Rick Kriseman, a Democrat, for taking part in St. Petersburg’s gay pride parade and flying the pride flag over city hall.
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daveo42

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”Mr. Nevel, you and your people talk about reparations," he said, mentioning Jesse Nevel, a white campaign opponent who heads a group calling for reparations for African Americans. ”The reparations that you talk about, Mr. Nevel, your people already got your reparations. Your reparations came in the form of a man named Barack Obama."
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I find it hilarious that reparations were covered by the first black president constantly hamstrung by old white dudes.
 
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rjinaz

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daveo42 said:
I find it hilarious that reparations were covered by the first black president constantly hamstrung by old white dudes.
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As a White man I really enjoy all these reparations I receive every 4-8 years.

What the hell is this fool talking about? Oh wait, it's racism. It's not supposed to actually make sense.
 
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Pai Pai Master

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If Obama was supposed to be reparations for slavery then I guess black people need reparations for Obama now because the federal government is doing everything in its power to forget the fact that he was ever president.
 
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Dynasty

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He is right. Black people should go back to Africa as soon as all the white people go back to Europe. White people should go first since they chose to go and 'discover' America. It is about time all the immagrants get out of the country and return America to the Native Americans.
 
Xyrmellon

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Nevasleep said:
I wonder which St. Petersburg is more progressive.
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This guy is a one of those nutjob fringe candidates and was present among a debate of six. He has almost zero support.

St. Pete is actually one of the more gay-friendly cities in the country.
 
Liljagare

Liljagare

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Never thought USA could get less tactile, then you guys elected Trump. This is another travesty.


(Anyone got a time machine? Let's go back and shoot Columbus/Vazqes, and tell the Vikings to train the people in Vinland.)
 
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Kaako

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This vampire looking mofo. Go back to the Underworld where you belong with the rest of your kind.
 
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