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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-occupy-la-anti-semitic-comments,0,1949335.story
Occupy LA protesters demonstrated on the steps of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters Monday, speaking out against the district's dismissal of a substitute teacher who made public comments deemed anti-Semitic at a recent protest.
The teacher, Patricia McAllister, spoke out at a recent Occupy LA protest, saying the Jews run the nation's banking infrastructure and should be forced to leave the U.S.
"I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government -- they need to be run out of this country," McAllister said in the video by Reason.tv, a Libertarian-leaning news organization
McAllister stood by her words Tuesday, speaking with KTLA 5. When it was suggested that her statement was racist, she refused to back down.
"It is not racist, it's the truth," McAllister said. "Anyone who speaks against the Jews are called racists nowadays."
McAllister is black. When suggested that someone might be considered racist if making similar comments about African-Americans, she refused to agree