"What's not to like?" quipped Ms. Savino. "He's a nice, white, Jewish..."

[Ter]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Could it be love?

It would seem so.

State Sen. Diane Savino fi- nally 'fessed up yesterday: She and state Sen. Jeffrey Klein are an item.

"What's not to like?" quipped Ms. Savino. "He's a nice, white, Jewish lawyer senator. It's hard to beat that combination."

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/staten_islands_sen_diane_savin.html


What's not to like? He's white? Sounds a little racist to me.

[frazzled]

1. Jews not all that white

Most are olive-skinned, Semitic. But like Arab-Americans, we always put down "white" on the forms, because none of the other rubrics really fit.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

5. Yep.

Ask any "white supremacist" group or klan-type group if Jewish people are white. Jews certainly lose out on many of the "white privilege" benefits that other white enjoy.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. And there are black Jews as well...

[PoliticAverse]

2. At best you might say her comment was 'unfortunate' coming from a politician... n/t

[LeftyAndProud60]

3. Staten Island? I'm not shocked by this then. NT

[ClarkUSA]

4. I'm a New Yorker. Let's just say that Staten Islanders have a certain reputation.

Perhaps there's good reason she is 47 and never married.

[yellowcanine]

6. Should have left the "white" out. Would have worked even better that way.

"nice Jewish lawyer senator"

[CakeGrrl]

7. Yep. She outed herself adding his whiteness to the list of positives.

Sammy Davis Jr. wouldn't have made her cut.

[stevenleser]

8. Ugh. And... Ugh.

:-(

[JI7]

9. they look like they could be siblings, at least in this pic

there have been some stuff about people being attracted to those who look like them so....