Posted on 02/28/2015 12:28:12 PM PST by Second Amendment First
PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews: “Where could we go?” He mentioned Tel Aviv, London and New York, but the location mattered less than the reassurance that departure remained an option. He’s not alone in this thinking: 7,000 French Jews emigrated in 2014.
Over the past year, as I watched with outrage at the dizzying spate of unpunished extrajudicial police killings of black men and women across America, I’ve wondered why more black Americans don’t think similarly. Why shouldn’t more of us weigh expatriation, even if only temporary, as a viable means of securing those lofty yet elusive ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Blacks leaving America in search of equality is not new. The practice dates from at least antebellum Louisiana, when free mulattoes in New Orleans sent their children to France to live in accordance with their means and not their color. It continued after World War II, when a number of black G.I.s, artists and jazzmen shared Richard Wright’s sentiment that there is “more freedom in one square block of Paris than there is in the entire United States of America.”
Today, that might sound hyperbolic — enormous gains have been made in America at every social level, and many blacks live as well as one can reasonably hope to anywhere. Yet we are consistently reminded of how tenuous this progress can be; how possible it still is to be humiliated on the front porch or cut down in Walmart by an officer who will never be held to account.
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Indeed.
Why shouldn’t more of us weigh expatriation, even if only temporary, as a viable means of securing those lofty yet elusive ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Um, cause they don’t exist any place else?
Hey, by all means, move to France...
Get back to your roots, move to Africa.
Right, off you go then. Don’t bother to write.
What were there, three? Four?
If that's dizzying, what would you call the black death (by violence) rate in Chicago alone?
Where be all the white womenz at in Arf'ica?
Because they don’t have race-based gibsmedats for the “victims” of crimes that ended 150 years ago in other countries.
“I’ve wondered why more black Americans don’t ... weigh expatriation... as a viable means of securing those lofty yet elusive ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?”
Oh, please. Ridiculous.
Can you collect welfare payment when overseas? The answer to that will answer the author’s question.
Take our aspiring rappers-—please!
I wish the half black in the white hut would leave.
Elsewhere they are expected to behave and act civilized.
In general, real Africans cannot stand American Blacks. I have friends who came here from Nigeria who want nothing to do with them. They think they are lazy and spoiled.
The feeling is often mutual. I once had a secretary who would complain to me about native Africans. She felt that they had a “better than the rest of us” attitude toward American blacks.
It was an enlightening relationship.
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I saw this first hand while overseas. A buddy and I were in port and hit a laid back bar when on liberty. We ended up drinking with a couple Africans who were merchants and having a generally good time. A couple black dudes from my platoon came into the place a few hours later (good dudes BTW) and came up to our table to join us. The Africans thanked my buddy and I for a good time and good conversation and got up to leave almost immediately. When I said “stay a while a longer”, one of them pointed back and forth to my black platoon-mates and said “Not with these two.” and just left.
My eyes were opened wide that day.
At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews: “Where could we go?”
Texas. Be Free!
"Don't go east, that's for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn't go west either, if I were you." - Schindler's List
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