Dear readers, you cannot make this stuff up.

This past week, in Birmingham, AL, a city councilwoman made outrageous assertions concerning a proposed city project which would’ve aided in the development of a privately-funded Holocaust memorial. Because. . . racism.

Sheila Tyson is opposed to $45,000 being spent to clear a lot to build a memorial park on the site of the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, which has already privately raised $500,000. The memorial would honor not only those who perished in the Holocaust, but also those survivors who came to America and made Birmingham their home.

Rebecca Dobrinski, the memorial center’s executive director, said of the memorial, “It is meant to teach the community of the consequences of prejudice and hate. That is the lesson of the Holocaust. Our goal is to teach the lessons of the Holocaust … so that we do not go down that slippery slope of hate again.”

That doesn’t matter to Sheila. She went on a rant in the city council chambers, asking “Isn’t it still for dead people. It is for dead people. Aren’t the people they are memorializing deceased?” She concluded with, “Dead is dead, right?”