Chattanooga City Council candidate defends remarks about Jewish slave owners

Activist Marie Mott, who is running for the District 8 seat on the Chattanooga City Council, is defending comments she made in 2020 about Jewish slave owners, which have resurfaced on social media less than two weeks before the Sept. 15 election.On Tuesday, an anonymous Twitter account with nine followers posted an approximately 35-second video of Mott in which she states that Jews “participated in the institution of chattel slavery.””Yes, they owned slaves in the South,” she said in the video. “Yes, they joined the Confederacy and took up arms against this nation with traitors to uphold the institution of slavery. Yes. Yes it happened. When are we going to deal with it? It happened. When are we going to deal with it? What are we going to do?”The account, called Mott Speaks, was created in September, and the clip was pulled from a 30-minute video posted on Facebook, which the operator of the Twitter account shared with the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The operator declined to identify himself or herself to the paper.”As leaders, we are held responsible for our actions,” City Councilwoman Marvene Noel, of Orchard Knob, said in a statement to the Times Free Press.Noel is defending…
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