Posted on 05/16/2005 4:34:27 PM PDT by Libloather
The WHAT? One of these days, Farrakhan will be put behind bars for hate speech...
Foxman wrote. When will someone in the African-American community stand up and say that the Million Man March had a positive message, but the pied piper is a racist and anti-Semite?
The only positive message at the million man march was the one that Eartha Kitt gave.......but the so-called million turned their backs on her and walked away. (Kitts message was the same THEN as Cosby's is NOW)
Farrakhan is an anti-Semitic, anti-White bigot, and any African-American that supports him is a hypocrite.
I wonder what Jesse Jackson's reaction would be if at a Jewish rally, some fringe rabbi said anti-Black things.
I will never,ever understand how an American black can be anti-semitic.
The Jews did more for the civil rights movement than almost any other single group.
Jews were killed for the civil rights movement.
I don't get it!
Have you ever heard the expression, "No good deed goes unpunished"?
"The only positive message at the million man march was the one that Eartha Kitt gave."
What about the one Peter Griffin made?
...and I like to believe that no Muslims were responsible for 9-11, but sadly neither statement is true.
"Why dont you take the high notes in his most recent speeches and sell those.
Which ones, the ones where Calypso Louie talked about how his followers would be justified in "strapping on a bomb"?
This is an outgrowth of the Black Power movement of the '60s. Much of the Nation of Islam's rhetoric influenced it, and that rhetoric remains.
But you're right. Jews stood up with us when it counted. It's counterproductive to be black and anti-Semitic. It's detestable to be anti-Semitic, period.
What about the one Peter Griffin made?
I dunno......either I missed it or yawned at it or it didn't stand out like Eartha's. Did they reject HIM too?
I'm wondering where the Disco Summit Action Network disappeared to. Are they still stayin' alive?
For many, it's just the "Religion of Peace" at work.
Well, he informed all the people there that they were responsible for all the violence in the world. Or at least he did on Family Guy, not sure if it happened in real life.
The Civil Rights movement in this country had to do with race not ethnic origin therefore it was mainly Black VS White thing...
Again I think Black Radicals mind set look at the world as one in Black and White..Jews are white they are lumped into the White race therefore they are looked at as oppressive that is how some Black Radicals feel about white folks...
But let us be blunt.
A lot of people say that the reason the Black-Jewish alliance frayed was because of the Black Power movement. A convenient excuse but not the reason.
The reason is that it served its purpose. By 1970 the old Gentleman's Agreement country club antisemitism was dead. By 1970 Jews were accepted in America as white people. By 1970 the old exclusionary codes were smashed and there were no more doors to be broken down for them. By 1970, Jews were rich white people and as the rise of neoconservatives showed no longer had common political interests with the black left.
In the days when blacks were powerless, whites could force black spokesmen to denounce "bad blacks" like Marcus Garvey or Paul Robeson or Malcolm X or Muhammad Ali to retain the favor of liberal whites. No more. When Foxman foolishly demands that blacks denounce Farrakhan as foolishly as he demanded that Christians repudiate Mel Gibson he expects black leaders to humiliate themselves by declaring that they are willing to turn on other blacks to please whites.
Blacks remember those days of "good black vs bad black" and that is why they are very protective of their public figures and close ranks quickly, as OJ Simpson discovered.
So were whites. I don't get how anyone can follow a racists.
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