[wardaddy]

I have apologized and been corrected

I am now beside my bed doing push-ups in contrition before donning my cpap to try to go back to sleep

Now I’m gonna need a nitro...lol

/s

Judah Benjamin is a favorite figure of mine...a survivor and unrepentant like capt William Lankins Bradford who was Semmes adjutant and who escaped after Mobile Bay and made his way to Barranquilla where he became prosperous in shipping on the Magdalena

Two of his descendants have posted here over the past 18 years

Irony of ironies....some of his huge Bradford clan in Colombia are now of all things...Jewish....and several are doctors

You can’t make this stuff up

[Cronos]

Quite frankly I read the article as showign positives about America -- let's be blunt there was anti-semitism in the USA before WWII - but it was eliminated after the 1940s - by the people of the USA themselves. The MeinKampf is freely available yet people also know that anti-semitism leads to a descent to evil

The USA has nothing to be ashamed of for its past where people may have verbally dscriminated againstJews or blacks or whatever, what matters is how people learnt -- the greatest generation may have grown up with some prejudice to hispanics, Italians, Jews, blacks etc. but they overcame it - that's another aspect that made them great, growing beyond the circumstances you were raised in