Posted on 06/28/2012 10:07:31 AM PDT by pinochet
The late conservative sociologist and evangelical Christian, James Q. Wilson, made an interesting observation on the manner in which Blacks, Jews, and Evangelicals relate to one another. Here is his fascinating 2008 article: http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_evangelicals.html
Here is a summary of his article. White Evangelical Christians are the strongest supporters of Israel in America, and their support for Israel comes from their religious beliefs that Israel is a fulfillment of scripture. But most American Jews have never been great fans of evangelicals, despite great efforts on the part of evangelicals to reach out to Jews.
Jews are the one white ethnic group, that has the strongest record of supporting civil rights for blacks. Jews have a strong record of supporting affirmative action for blacks, despite the fact that affirmative action harms Jews. Despite this, ADL studies have shown that blacks have the highest levels of anti-semitism of any group, with the exception of Muslims. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have made anti-semitic remarks, but this has not harmed their careers. In fact, the anti-semitism of Sharpton and Jackson has made them national celebrities, and has led to them being celebrated as national figures.
Compare the treatment that Al Sharpton gets, hosting his own show on MSNBC, with the treatment that Pat Buchanan has received. Sharpton is much worse than Buchanan, with regard to anti-semitism. Sharpton helped incite the Crown Heights riots in 1991, which killed a Jewish Student called Yankel Rosenbaum. Then there is a long list of black anti-semites who are loved by blacks, such as Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, Amiri Baraka, Andrew Young, Khalid Muhammad, Steve Cokely, Tony Martin, David Dinkins, Malcolm X, Cynthia McKinney, Alton Maddox, etc.
You just don't have any conservative insight or interest in this thread.
Your posts are pure democrat liberalism.
Whatever you say Robert KKK Bird.
You cannot explain your position so you scream liberal.
There is nothing liberal about equality under the law.
The main reason why Jews are so concerned about Christian conversion is a fundamental constant of Jewish history: Jews have unique survival as a people for something like 4,000 years, having beaten back many forces attempting put an end to their history. So with that history of survival against the odds in mind, Jews place top priority on passing down their tradition and peoplehood to future generations. Conversions to Christianity are a hazard to Jewish survival as a people, because, in the Jewish view, one is no longer Jewish once he is converted.
Whether or not Jews who convert to Christianity "become conservatives and start voting Republican" is another issue. Voting 'Rat is not a religious commandment for Jews nor is voting Republican a religious requirement for Christians, and I haven't seen any statistics on how such conversions influence one's political predilections.
That Rabbi may have been a leftist, but you can't determine that from the one statement he made.
Given 2000 years of official Jewish skepticism, he’s a little daft to equate the tiny fraction who believe the Christian gospel to country-wide round ups by evil dictators like Mr. Hitler. I’d expect that far, far more go just plain secular.
We have a long memory.
Robert Byrd who was a democratic leader until 2 years ago represents your view, liberalism, Jewish liberalism, black liberalism, and the democrat party against conservatism.
Byrd would be speaking with your voice, defending his party and the left, and how they flipped blacks.
Byrd would be describing it as pure and purely noble, just like you.
You, just like him, oppose civil rights.
So explain to me an example of Jewish people using Blacks as “muscle” to advance leftist aims, provide sources if you will.
So far your only example is civil rights - which is NOT a leftist aim, and is old old old, and didn't require “muscle” by blacks - just the Constitutional power of mostly Republicans elected by conservatives who believed in equality under the law.
You wonder why so many Blacks and Jewish people are inclined to vote for Democrats? Take a long look in the mirror if you can stomach the sight. Your are the face the media loves to display to any Black or Jewish person who might think of voting Republican - an anti-civil rights zealot who sounds like the Head Nazi from “the Blues Brothers”.
The Blacks were not the only ones who switched parties around the 1960’s. A lot of loony racist Democrats switched as well.
The question is why Jews hate Evangelicals, not "Christians". Jews vote roughly 80% democrat, Evangelicals vote close to that for Republicans.
Even Christians becoming Evangelical Christians moves them right, for instance Hispanic Protestants are close to a 50/50 republican vote (Bush won 56% of the Hispanic Protestant vote in 2004, higher than the overall Catholic vote).
As I said in post 40.
"Liberal American Jews despise Evangelicals for the same reason that all of the left, and all of the forces who oppose God and conservatism do.
Evangelicals are truly conservative, and pro-God, and they mean it.
Even the Dali Lama does not have a his usual unity of all religions tolerance for Evangelicals."
I presume you are saying that with the emergence of current Orthodox Jewish and "Russian Jewish" children into voting adults, we will see some local pockets of Republican power within NYC going forth into the future.
But that presumes that (1) these current children will continue to hold to the more conservative political views of their parents into the future, and not be influenced too much by college leftists and (2) these current children will remain in these pockets and not dilute their potential voting power by scattering around the country or to Israel.
So only time will tell.
I'm not used to being attacked by a liberal democrat here at FR. This site is supposed to be for conservatives.
The Republican party is not the home of "loony racists", and blacks switched their vote instantly and permanently in 1936, not the "1960s".
Byrd and Evangelical hating liberal Jews and liberal blacks are of your party, not Republicans and conservatives.
I am not used to reading Free Republic and hearing the exact same riff that the head Nazi from “the Blues Brothers” was going off on - Jewish people using Blacks as “muscle” to advance a far left agenda.
So far you have no substantiation.
All you can do is scream “liberal democrat” like a pansy without the intellectual fortitude to defend their loony racist ideas.
Civil rights are not a leftist goal.
You and Robert KKK Bird are birds of a feather loon.
Some numbers indicate that they vote republican (not necessarily conservative) at barely above 50% which is good, but an indicator that they are at best moderate republicans.
You have offered nothing useful, nothing conservative, no meaningful input to this thread at all.
The Catholic population of the Third Reich was 40%, with Protestants being 54%..
You seem too young and disinterested in history to know about the subject.
I was pro civil rights and participated in the movement, to the degree of being investigated by federal authorities.
In case you haven't noticed, there are quite a few "defectors" who are prominent as American Jewish conservative (at least to some extent) political and cultural intellectuals and pundits.
Just to name a few that come to mind:
Don Feder, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Levin, Mona Charen, Pamela Geller, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, David Horowitz, (the late) Andrew Breitbart, Ronald Radosh, Jay Sekulow, Adam Bellow, Daniel Pipes, Joan Swirsky, Ben Shapiro, Joel Pollak, Michael Medved, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Michael Savage.
I'm sure I'm missing quite a number more.
So your ONE example that you were willing to offer and source of Jewish people supposedly using blacks as “muscle” to advance a far left agenda - is something that now you say you supported - civil rights!
Care to try again then? Please provide sources. I am interested in what you have to read to come out talking like the Head Nazi from “the Blues Brothers”.
You don't even seem to have any knowledge or memory of the many facets of the "Civil Rights movement" although it is still raging at full speed and is currently still used and exploited everyday in American politics and is used to advance the liberal agenda.
Read your news today, it is full of the left pushing "Civil Rights" to advance all facets of liberalism, and it was doing that many decades ago, do you really think that all those Jewish liberals flocked to black "civil rights" and twisted it into an attack on the constitution and the individual freedom because they took an 80 year break from their radical liberalism just to be nice and pure for a while?
"Blacks also realized that they were hardly the equal of Jews, and that relations between the two groups reflected this disparity in economic and social status. As much as Jews might have done for blacks, the relationship was essentially one of paternalism."
"Blacks had resented Jews not because they did not do enough for them but because they did too much. This gave rise to the joke about the man who was shocked to find himself attacked by blacks. "I haven't done anything for them," he responded. Harold Cruse's 1967 book, The Crisis of the Black Intellectual, was a revelation for its Jewish readers, indicating as it did the extent to which blacks resented Jewish involvement in black affairs. The pervasive anti-Semitism of The Crisis of the Black Intellectual stemmed from Cruse's bitterness over the fact that the black drive for self-determination had been deflected by Jewish radicals into causes, such as communism, that were of little relevance to black nationalism."
I guess so — in the very broad sense that Jews supported civil rights and most Blacks didn’t always appreciate it and evangelicals support Israel and don’t get credit for that from most Jews — but maybe when you get down to details there are differences.
Conservatives like Evangelicals, whether they are Jewish or not.
Liberals despise Evangelicals, whether they are Jewish or not.
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