(Jewish Group) Mayor of MS town apologizes after saying trash collectors are 'not trying to Jew...

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Mayor of Missouri town apologizes after saying trash collectors are ‘not trying to Jew anybody’

The mayor of a Missouri town has apologized for saying a local trash company is “not trying to Jew anybody” at a recent public meeting, writing in an open letter that the remark was “not in keeping with the beliefs and values” of the town.

Stephen Wright, the mayor of Odessa, made the remark at a Monday meeting of the local Board of Aldermen, amid a discussion of changes to trash pickup in the town of 5,500. On Wednesday, Wright posted an open letter on the city government’s Facebook page, addressed “to our Jewish Community” and apologizing for the statement.

“Those statements were not in keeping with the beliefs and values of the City of Odessa,” Wright wrote. “It was not my intent to degrade or marginalize anyone, or any group of people, nor to further any negative stereotypes based upon their heritage or belief.”

Odessa, located 30 miles east of Kansas City, does not appear to have any organized Jewish presence. Joe Spaar, the co-publisher of a local paper, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “I’ve lived here my whole life and I haven’t met one Jewish person.”

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“I’ve lived here my whole life and I haven’t met one Jewish person.”

And THAT is where a shit-ton of anti-Semitism comes from in multiple ways and by various peoples!

[jimfields33]

1. What a dumb thing to say. Glad he apologized.

I don’t understand the hatred of the Jewish people in America or in Israel. Weird.