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Barron Wants "Racist Fool" CUNY Trustee Out

2009_12_barronshout.jpg After getting into a public squabble with a CUNY trustee at a groundbreaking event on Tuesday, City Councilman Charles Barron wants him out. According to the Daily News, the controversial Council member told an audience at Medgar Evers College (a CUNY school), "The Board of Trustees has to change... This is a racist, rednecked right-winger who's sitting on the Board of Trustees. Make sure you write a letter and say he must be removed."

Barron was referring to trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who called Barron a "disgrace" at the Tuesday ceremony because Barron was complaining that he wasn't allowed to speak earlier and that he was given a seat in the audience, instead at the front with other officials. Their exchange devolved into a shouting match with Barron yelling, "You just be quiet. Ain't nobody talking to you. Whether you like it or not, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. You sit there. You shut up!" and Wiesenfeld later calling Barron a "thug" and a "hater." (The News points out, "Wiesenfeld was appointed to the CUNY board by Gov. George Pataki in 1999, despite allegations he referred to blacks as 'savages' and Hasidic Jews as 'thieves.'") It got so bad, "young children were escorted away" from the event.

Because of their actions, the News' editorial board bestows upon both men the "New York Knucklehead Award", reminding us Barron "once objected to sitting near a statue of 'slave-owning pedophile' Thomas Jefferson in the Council, made a stink over naming a street after racist kidnapper Sonny Carson and played City Hall host to murderous Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe."

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  • 5borough

    He'd be much nicer and more relaxed if he just came out already. It is almost 2010 Chuckie it is ok. His frustrations about who he is are getting the best of him.

  • S.K.

    Again, it's a shame that this self-righteous hypocrite tried to deny Bloomberg a third term, but after it became legal, he also ran for a third term.

  • NannyState

    Charles Barron: the Anti-Martin Luther King.

  • Lew

    When I told my wife, a CUNY prof, about the argument that Barron had with a CUNY trustee, she replied: "Was it Wiesenfeld?" She hadn't heard the news, but she figured that it was him. She didn't use the word "redneck," but she used a term that was at least as strong. Let's not forget that these trustees have been appointed by Giuliani, Pataki and Bloomberg (only one appointed by Paterson), so most of them are right-wingers. Their decisions almost always hurt CUNY and it's good that Barron, faculty and students stand up against the right-wing.

  • Ha! That's very interesting.

  • ides_of_march

    Textbook case of what psychiatrists call "projection."



    Sociopaths very often accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of.



    Emancipation, the civil rights movement, so much progress made only for black people take a quantum leap backward by following destructive, self-serving, hate-spewing maniacs like Charles Barron is beyond tragic.

  • Bernie Madoff-Goetz

    If Barron didn't rep a district filled with brainwashed victims from the Church of Al & Jesse, he'd probably be homeless. The man has nothing to offer the city or society in general and stunts such as this are exactly the kind of childish bullshit his constituents love him for.

  • newport27

    with a name like "weisenfeld", in NEW YORK, a TRUSTEE of a university?? For some ODD reason, I can absolutely sympathize with Mr. Barron



    kick that racist, money-greedy, power-tripping zionist out!

  • HypocraticOath

    Well that was nicely anti-semitic. Given that your post clearly shows you didnt read anything and just assumed everything, ill also offer up a big "fuck off" to you as well.

  • newport27

    dear hypocraticoath



    for every reaction there must've been an action.

    think sincerely for a moment about how zionists are abusing and manipulating this city and nation and how knowledgeable and educated citizens, not the ignorant majority who have fallen victim to mainstream media brainwashing, must feel. I mean, it's like punching me in the face and forcing me to smile and pretend that I still like you.



    notice that I keep using the word "zionist" and not "jew"? if you took offense my guess is you are probably a zionist.

  • HypocraticOath

    That was supposed to be for newport27's post

  • Potty Boy

    Is that a Nehru jacket he's sportin'?

  • etypical

    Takes one to know one asshat.

  • Petey

    I think its ironic that Barron can call anyone a racist, with his history and his statements.

  • FrankMartin

    Ironic that he would use a racist word "redneck" in his attack. It is after all a word meant to insult and disparage based on race, location and culture; in this case white, rural, southerners, who work outside and get sunburn on their necks.

  • SC

    Or a fool, for that matter.

  • brooklynmouthoff

    Both of them, children.



    This is why ALL politicians need to shut the fuck up. Politicians are pigs.

  • Billiamsburg

    So over black people.

  • CGNY

    Does Barron want himself out? It has long been a tactic of the extreme left to call your opponent a racist to shut him up. The problem is that Barron is the only one coming off like a racist with a serious chip on his shoulder.



    Charles Barron, New York City Council member -- expressing his resentment toward whites:



    "You know, some days I get so frustrated I just want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health."



    >>It's a human thing Charles, and your mental health is in severe failure mode.

  • Guest

    i pity the fool with an angry mug in that photo

  • longacre

    Don't tell Mr. Barron that "redneck" is a racial slur.

  • Guest

    barron is a redneck - he just switched sides.

  • HypocraticOath

    Barron is also a racist piece of shit. Fuck him hard and sideways.

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