“I think the sympathy factor regarding slavery is a factor. We see ourselves as emancipated slaves. A large part of the founding of our religion is based on that. That would be the main reason for supporting blacks.”
I think this is true.
“As for a distaste for evangelicals... well, the evangelicals tend to try to convert our kids. That’s a big no-no. It’s spoken of as a great tragedy when a young Jewish person leaves the tribe. The whole Messianic Jew movement tends to make most C’s and O’s hiss. (Along with the Reform movement... but that’s a different subject.)”
Again, I think that is annoying, but no big deal. They are sincere. HaShem values sincerity above almost everything else.
“Messianic Jew movement”
As long as they are gentiles pretending to be Jews, what’s the harm? In fact, I think that is how several large groups of sincere Jewish converts got started.
“Evangelicals support Israel and Jews NOW, but (not too long ago) that wasn’t always the story.”
This is a concern. I think of Martin Luther, who started off very philo-semitic, but when his attempts to convert Jewish people failed, he turned into probably the most dangerous anti-semite outside of Pharoah, Haman, and Hitler -— writing “Of Jews and Their Lies” which was literally the 10-point plan for the Shoa, down to the concentration camps.
Thanks for reminding everyone of that, Luther's early history with Jews is usually ignored. It's a factor in Jewish concern (I don't contend most know Luther's history either) about "outreach", "outreach" generally not being about support for Israel, which is heartfelt amongst most Evangelicans, but which relates to evangelization.
Surely “Yiddishe Kopfs” are not known for being illogical?
If the status of the American Negro is traced from the dark evil days of chattel slavery to becoming freedmen, then undergoing various sorts of opprobrium and opposition, to the end of Jim Crow, the picture is one of slow improvement, and more importantly, of family integrity. Then family integrity went completely bust when white liberal welfare schemes promised to help but instead bribed American Negro families to be dysfunctional. Surely “Yiddishe Kopfs” do not reason that this very last step is a good thing, or is inescapable and cannot be remedied?