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NY Assemblyman Backs Down, Apologizes for Blackface Costume

Feb. 25, 2013 10:10pm Jason Howerton

NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind Apologizes for Blackface Costume

Brooklyn assemblyman Dov Hikind speaks to the media outside the courtroom at Brooklyn State Supreme court following the sentencing of Levi Aron, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in New York. Aron, 37, was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for kidnapping, killing and dismembering Leiby Kletzky, an 8-year-old boy who became lost in Brooklyn after leaving a day camp. Credit: AP

ALBANY, N.Y. (TheBlaze/AP) — A New York assemblyman who at first vigorously defended wearing blackface, an Afro wig and a basketball jersey to a costume party apologized Monday, saying he didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Hikind initially dismissed criticism as “political correctness to the absurd.”

Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind wore the basketball garb at his own party in his home to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, for which costumes are commonly part of the celebration.

At a news conference outside his Brooklyn home, however, Hikind pledged to be “a little more careful, a little more sensitive.” He added: “I repeat, it was not meant to in any way hurt anyone. And those that were? I’m sorry. That was not my intention.”

Assemblyman Karim Camara of the state Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus had called Hikind’s actions at the party “callous and repugnant.”

“It brings back the memories of African-Americans being reduced to buffoonery just to gain access to the entertainment industry,” said Camara, who is also a Brooklyn Democrat and a black leader in the New York state Legislature.

NBC New York

The powerful leader of the Democrat-led Assembly, Speaker Sheldon Silver, weighed in shortly after Hikind’s news conference, calling Hikind’s actions “inappropriate and offensive.” No action against Hikind was announced.

Earlier this month, Hikind criticized the fashion designer John Galliano, who was recently photographed in New York City dressing as a Hasid with a long jacket and curly sidelocks. Two years ago, Galliano was fired from Christian Dior after his anti-Semitic rant was caught on video.

Hikind demanded an explanation from Galliano for his costume.

“If it was just anyone else, I wouldn’t know what to say. But considering who this guy is, considering his background and what he’s said in the past, let him explain it to all of us: Are you mocking us?” Hikind told the New York Post.

On Jan. 31, Hikind asked the president of Brooklyn College to resign for failing to stop an event he said had a racist agenda. He wrote on his blog at the time that the “BDS Movement Against Israel” event called for a unilateral boycott against Israel and Israeli businesses.

In Albany, Hikind has championed some conservative and religion-based issues. In 2009, he opposed an early vote to legalize same-sex marriage

“It is about what I believe God wants,” Hikind said then. “God doesn’t flip-flop on an issue.”

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jackact
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:37am
If the intended point is the fact that pretty much the entire NY Assembly is black, believe me, we get it.
As are most (democratic) politicians comprising all five boroughs.
Disfunction junction?
Absolutely.
Enough city college diplomas and affirmative action educations to fill an entire Assembly with a combined IQ of minus 5.
:(

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Southernsoul
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:31am
Sounds like they are trying to repress his1st Amendment rights.

I am so sick of the racist crap. If you want to find racism, look to the people who constantly scream racism every chance they get.

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RIGS
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:10am
WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just more crap.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:28am
“It brings back the memories of African-Americans being reduced to buffoonery” It’s not such a distant memory with Obama in the White House.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:45am
  Have you seen the blacks walking around with their pants hanging off their a55. Or talking the izzle ebonic crap…Black buffoonery is alive a well and embraced by blacks.
  
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dajones
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:49am
really? what it reminds me of is eddie murphy made up as a white man for a laugh on SNL..

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- redfish52
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:24am
  When they do it, its just a bad judgement call….when a Conservative does it, its pure racism….
  
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- carl_in_ohio
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 8:18am
  Remember Eddie Murphy’s “Kill the White People” skit on SNL as a Reggae band?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtuYWlh6fJ4
  
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:35am
Let’s add this to the list of things white people can’t do.

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What the Heck
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:03am
Where is the total outrage? How disgusting, even I think it is horrible and I am considered a Tea Party Racist by the person dressing up like this.
hypocrite all dems are hypocrite.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:24am
  They sure are.
  
  Progressives get all worked up by 3 teenage boys in North Dakota, who can’t vote, drink or sign in legal contracts and who are disciplined.
  
  Meanwhile the Progs themselves do this & the Democrat controlled Assembly does …
  
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fastfacts
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:03am
This is the huge controversy, why not report on Biden’s big lie about every woman should go buy a shotgun and then lying about it and the AR-15. One woman decided to fight back and made this video showing what happens with women who use shotguns vs rifles and uses Biden’s own words to show how dumb he really is. Check this out: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2013/feb/woman_biden_ar15.html

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DonaldH
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:32am
Wait, didn’t Chevy Chase do this every once in awhile? seems I remember a 80′s movie of his where he day-dreamed about being an LA Laker– big fro and black-face too– I THINK– and let me say again– I THINK i remember something like that

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:05am
  It was “Fletch”.
  That was a funny scene.
  No Blackface, though.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7AUpGXLDdk
  
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Mike76
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:46am
Did anyone complain when the Wayans brothers dressed like White women in “White Chicks”? What about when Eddie Murphy played an old White man in “Coming to America”? No? Then STFU now.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:11am
  Its really funny….Nope actually its really sad….That in this country I have noticed White Males to seem stupid…..You watch commercials on TV and they will portray the White father as the stupid one and the mother or the children as the smarter ones.
  
  But in reality right now in this country I have noticed the Black Male as the one that seems to be stupid, Jerry Springer has them up on stage fighting over baby mommas……Black males kill each other in the ghettos over drugs or women or whatever…….But what amazes me the most is that they copulate with multiple partners only to have a gaggle of kids by multiple women, and expect someone else to raise them………The Black Male in this country better wake up and ask the question, does Obama have my back, does he even care…….Because it seems to me that Obama is above all the other Black Males in this country, and he makes them all seem like the **** end of a bad Joke……You can only blame one man for your problems and this time he is not White…..He is Obumble….Golfer extraordinaire……!!
  
  The Ghetto always votes Democrat…..But Allen West and Herman Cain will always be Right.
  
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- betterpart
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 3:16am
  Ditto that, mike. And neither did anyone flap their arms when the idiotic so-called actor and comedian Jamie Foxx announced in public, “Black is the new white” or when the New Black Panthers threatened to “kill all whites and their babies” on national television while swinging billy clubs during Obamasama’s 2008 road show. It was the guy’s private house, his private party—-all mewling libs shut the front door.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:08am
  Robert Downey Jr. played a black man in Tropic Thunder and that was OK.
  Maybe you have to get a permission slip or something?
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:49pm
Did you guys see that ted nuggent was on the alex jones show today?

http://www.infowars.com/ted-nugent-the-sheeping-of-america/

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SunTzuYou
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:36pm
With 95% of African-Americans voting for Obama, black face making them look like buffoons should be the least of their concerns.

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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:32pm
I think the only thing that matters here is if he was eating fried chicken and watermelon….because the basketball jersey was a nice touch!

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txjb
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:30pm
If he had a television under his arms, I could see someone getting upset .

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:15pm
Wonder if he was stopped and searched 5 times while walking down the street?

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- betterpart
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 3:18am
  Ask Sheldon Silver—-a known major crooked politician who simply wanted his 2 minutes lol….
  
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- hillbillyinny
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:25am
  He was in his own home!
  
  However, usually the “dressing up” for Purim is related to the Biblical Feast, not events or caricatures of today!
  
  Stupid shallow man, or scared, scared libs who pretend they care but rather USE minorities for their own “purposes”!
  
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crusaderx9
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:03pm
You really can’t make this stuff up.

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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:37am
  Who needs fiction when you have reality like that every day?
  
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MDECKER
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:55pm
“It brings back the memories of African-Americans being reduced to buffoonery just to gain access to the entertainment industry,” said Camara. Has this Camara guy seen some of our so-called “distinguished” black U.S. Congressmen and women? The definition of buffooery is U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin.

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RaydocX
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:54pm
I had not heard a WHISPER about this.
Can you Imagine if this had been a GOP politician?
Jackson, Shapton, Farrakahn, et al would be screaming for his head.
Instead this weak explanation excuse will be accepted without any backlash.
Racist Hypocrisy in action.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:53pm
These are not the droids you are looking for?

Oh, he’s almost there? We can almost sense the disturbance in the force?

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TIMEBOMB
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:39pm
No need to apologize Don you looked just like me when I was choomin back in the day.

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seek.the.truth
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:39pm
At my family’s costume parties, we have had many members show up in what would be deemed politically incorrect garb. We have had a nun, American Indian, Indian woman, Mexican man, Aunt Jemimah and one year George and Laura Bush. We have had gypsies, Troy Polumolo from the Steelers(love him!) And men dressed as old women.
My point is this — can’t we just have fun without constantly wagging the PC finger at everyone?

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:35am
  I agree. Dov HIkin is a Brooklyn assemblyman going to a costume party in his own home. He should be able to wear whatever the hell he wants. this PC crap is disgusting. There are so many THIN SKINNED Americans in this country I want to puke!
  
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RIDEMODELS
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:32pm
Wow…….But I bet if he had a hill billie costume on it would be really really funny.

I mean Jerry Springer exploits more black people on stage then really anyone I have ever watched.

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- spirited
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:25pm
  Yes.
  
  And he started what grew into a revolution of reality shows –that should be named:
  
  ~ How low can you get?
  ~ See how the vulgar live (It’s the only way to live)
  ~ Who has the most tattoos (Look like $hit rolled in an old-fashioned funny paper)
  ~ Who wants to be a mindless, selfish pig ?
  
  ;^>Almost aired the new norm:
  Baby’s Daddy Has Lots o Moms (My Many Mmm Mmms & Babies)
  
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WINNEBAGOMAN
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:27pm
This would be THE leading story for all of the national news outlets if this guy was a Republican.

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electroencephalographic
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:19pm
Watch Blazing Saddles. Lighten up all you Franci.

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:28pm
  Where are all the White women at?
  
  Cleavon Little – Blazing Saddles.
  
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- electroencephalographic
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:35pm
  Ah damnit! Somebody go back to town and get a shitload of dimes.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:46pm
  The Sherriff is Near?
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:18pm
He was just dressing up as the son Barrack would have had if he had man genes. The costume was a guy who was black on the outside and racist on the inside, just like Barrack and Holder.

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