Although I've never noticed it, Nazareth has a reputation of being a racist community. My black friends insist it's true whenever I ask them about it, and they would know better than I. Or would they? Maybe they're relying on stories and misinformation, which incidentally is the source of all bigotry.
If Nazareth is racist, it should have loved failed GOP candidate Tricia Mezzacappa, who used the "N" word and slurred minorities in a rant to Easton police. But she only got 36 of Nazareth's 652 votes in the GOP Council race, or 5.5%.
That's well below the 7.94% she received county-wide.
Mezzacappa is too bigoted for Nazareth.
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Nazareth's largest church community has been served for years by missionary priests who happen to be black. One might have a beer or soda with them at the Holy Family Club where they are universally loved and appreciated. The food bank we all support doesn't care what color the needy are. The St. Johns churches have traveled to Louisiana and Mississippi and New Jersey to help souls of every color rebuild. Nazareth is a mostly good place with mostly good people. Really good people. Charges of racism are words. Nazareth people are better defined by their deeds. Mezzacappa found this out.
"Nazareth is a mostly good place with mostly good people. Really good people."
Except for me.
I don't think that it had anything to do with racism. A lot of the votes Mezzacappa got were not from people who are racists, but from people who just didn't know who they were voting for. Peg Ferraro did better in Nazareth than she did county-wide. Why? Because she is a local and best known there. Even the lesser informed voters in the Nazareth area know her, so she got some the the votes that would have gone to Mezzacappa in other parts of the county.
Getting out the mayonnaise right now to take off the Messycrapper bumper sticker off my f-150, she flopped harder than "Set for Life"
Mezzacappa's candidacy offered a witches brew of racism, mental instability, criminal harassment and dishonesty. It was quite a package. That may win votes in Easton. But that's it.
Kevin, I'd agree with you, but Nazareth voters got to vote for 5 candidates. Their disdain for TM must be, at least in part, a rejection of her message. I'd like to think it's also a reflection of their admiration for me, but I don't think I could get anyone to buy into that.
If you theory is correct, that must mean that West Easton voters are especially racist, as Mezzacappa got a significantly larger percentage of the vote there compared tp the county as a whole
The word spread and we all know it spreads fast in something like this. Many were turned off. Good.
Now do you know what happened with Zito's hearing today????
I do not know and I was not there.
Kevin, you have a point.
All satire aside, I do remember hearing that Nazareth and surrounding townships had one of the highest numbers of the K K K in the 60s and 70s.
It definitely has a rep.
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