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Steve Levy’s Newest Racist Remarks

Posted August 2, 2009 by Patrick Young, Esq.

In today’s Newsday, Joye Brown relates Steve Levy’s newest case of racial provocation. Speaking to a roomful of his supporters at Captain Bill’s restaurant in Bayshore last week, Levy jokingly asked David Manning, a supporter who was born in Canada, if he was a U.S. citizen. When Manning responded that he had naturalized, Levy reportedly replied that was good, otherwise “I’d have to deport you, like the guys in the kitchen”. Levy’s spokesman said that anyone offended by the remark was “politically correct” and couldn’t take a joke.
One of Levy’s supporters called Brown after the “joke” and told her: “I can’t let it go. I can’t stop being upset about it. He did not need to go there”.
Levy’s remark was typical of his disregard for even the most civil basic civil treatment of Latinos. He famously called the murder of Marcelo Lucero a “one day story” not worthy of press attention or civic engagement two days after his beaten and stabbed body was found. He also compared the killing to a colonoscopy. He refers to Latino children born in the United States as “anchor babies”. And he taunts leaders in the Latino community as members of the “lunatic fringe” and “communists and anarchists”.
So it should not surprise us that when Levy went for dinner, he had no problem concluding that the Latinos preparing food for he and his BFFs were “illegal aliens”. You know, the folks he says are bringing danger and disease to our shores. He didn’t care enough about his family and his guests to remove them from this danger. But he was thoughtful enough to threaten the “help” in his typically condescending way.
More: Will Levy’s remarks hurt him?