If blacks are so Anti Semitic and there is widespread AntiSemitism then why did blacks in this City no less throw there support behing Emanuel during his first election?


Can someone answer that for a brother?

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

He pandered to them?

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

If blacks are so Anti Semitic and there is widespread AntiSemitism then why did blacks in this City no less throw there support behing Emanuel during his first election?


Can someone answer that for a brother?

THis may take awhile.

Maybe they were more anti-Latino.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

He really didn't. If blacks are inherently Anti Semitic and hold the sort of biases expressed by CH then nothing would have led us to vote for him. There was also a black candidate or 2 as I recall that ran.

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The real answer is that black antisemitism is seen as separate from and less pernicious than European antisemitism, and thus less necessary to condemn. Blacks who hate Jews because of slumlords or slave merchants haven't carried out exiles, pogroms, or genocides as a result, and even if they wanted to, they've never had the power to do so, so it's handwaved away and more or less left alone as one of those black things outsiders can't understand, like those NBA jackets that have every team's logo on them. The fact that southern blacks all but refused to vote for a Jew in the Democratic primaries was something the media superficially acknowledged without ever exploring, and I wish they had explored it and laid this issue bare.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Hey Leash maybe I need to bump this for you as a sort of reminder as to who actually first made reference to "Identity politics"

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What does this have to do with what we were talking about?

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If blacks are so Anti Semitic and there is widespread AntiSemitism then why did blacks in this City no less throw there support behing Emanuel during his first election?


Can someone answer that for a brother?

THis may take awhile.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I have a different take on Farrakhan. And that is: He's entitled to his ideas. Some may be reprehensible ideas but so what? I don't think there need be any demands for anyone to "denounce" him. People are allowed to have stupid ideas, wrong ideas, even hateful ideas.

That said, these hypocrites deserve to have Farrakhan's ugliest ideas tossed right in their faces because they are so full of shit.

No I'm not implying that. It doesn't have to be personalized. I'm just truly wondering how people on here can claim credibility when they can accurately portray regarding Hymietown as one of bigotry while ignoring comments regarding "black thing".

I haven't really addressed the presumption regarding the notion that there is some widespread black Anti Semitic movement in this country either.

As far as Jewish racism if (I wanted to drudge down that path) I'd simply have to look no further than our esteemed Mayor. I'm not much interested in that because it is irrelevant to the decision. There is a strong case to be made regarding him and racism.

I'm merely focusing on the comments regarding blacks being anti Semitic. That is where my focus happens to be. Those charges are unfounded and baseless.

It is inherently stereotypical for anyone to claim that Jesse or Louis Farrakhan are the voices for the black community. THat is the other thing that came from this too. It belittles African Americans to think this way. We don't exist in a monolith.

Well Nas said Chicago blacks don't know if people are Jews or not. But Rahm is part of the democratic machine and was their preferred candidate is the answer.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.