News 12 Brooklyn:
A Westchester man says he’s volunteering at a kosher soup kitchen in Brooklyn as penance for a video of him mocking a Hasidic Jewish boy that went viral online.
Quaishawn Stewart has apologized for offending the Jewish community and is volunteering at the well-known Masbia soup kitchen.
The video shows a little boy and Stewart mocking his haircut.
“It was my fault,” Stewart says. “I messed up.”
Stewart, who is black, apologized to the Jewish community on Twitter.
“We’ve been through as much as they’ve been through,” he said in a video apology. “They’ve been through worse.”
He called his actions a form of bullying and said he regretted them and was sorry.
“That was one of the most immature videos I’ve probably ever recorded,” he said. “I’m really not that type of person.”
After the incident, Councilman Brad Lander invited him to volunteer at Masbia. Stewart agreed.
Now he says he’s using it as a learning experience and giving back in a humble way.
Despite all the -let’s say- unfortunate things that happen, it’s great to see that sometime or other, there are positive thing people to and decision they make!
Plus, we can learn lessons from things like these, vd”l
I would like to nominate him to be the next President of the CHJCC.
Take lemons and make lemonade.
He is either humble and remoseful or a brilliant self promoter, either way gotta give him props
Do you want brown or white rice? lol. They even repeated that twice within a minute!
That is really nice of him!
He needs to go and apologize in person to the boys parents.
i think he must have read my comment where i told him to do something for the family or community , then i’ll believe his apology is sincere .
now your forgiven .
He seems to have a good heart in the right place and is truly regretting his actions.
What he did was very sad…. his apology was brave move in the right direction…..
As a person making teshuvah I can very much respect what he is doing now….
This is certainly proof We are entering Geulah
A great urida brings a great alliyah… i hope he continues in ways of good.
Very very impressed
that’s too cute. he seems like a great guy, I’m so touched and inspired.
Kudos to this young man.
He apologized for his wrongdoing; & is now doing humbling work to both give back to & learn about the Jewish people.
Hopefully this experience will give him the tools to further his education & become a good & decent Citizen, thereby showing others the correct choices in life.
This guy is really cute🤗🤗
Very impressive. Would be a wonderful world if everyone took responsibility the way he is and sincerely apologize as well!!