The problem is deeper than even you can imagine. Social progress is slow and it will take longer for full realization of all people. But to dismiss the importance or relevance of the holocaust is recklass as it demeans injustice. Oh it was a one time situation you say..........not really but it was the biggest one in the mid 20th century. What about the injustice done to Japanese Americans in WWII, or the injustice to the american indian or other minority groups? When we discount a single injustice, we discount the relevance of all injustice.
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----- Original Message ----
From: citation502 <citation502@yahoo.com>
To: Dems2008@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:33:52 PM
Subject: [Dems2008] Re: The American Jew disconnect
Let's leave aside your name-calling (WASP?), your posts nan, YOUR
POSTS have been those most evident in their dismissing any relevance
of the history of the black experience in this country.
So until you can have the candor and integrity not to deny what is
self-evident in your posts, don't call me names lady.
--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, nancy m gibson <nmgibson@...> wrote:
>
> Excuse me but I don't think any people have cared more about what
A.A.'s
> have gone through than the Jewish people. I find your post to be
very
> out of line. But after all Mr know it all WASP what more can I
expect
> from you.------------------ Nan
>
>
>
> COULD A GREATER MIRACLE TAKE PLACE, THAN FOR US
> TO LOOK THROUGH EACH OTHERS EYES, FOR AN INSTANT.
> Henry David Thoreau
>
>
>
> My Jewish friends have told me for years that anyone who lives with
a
> memory of the atrocities of the Holocaust in their background and
> heritage will forever feel more vulnerable than those who do not.
And I
> accept and believe that. The atrocities of the Holocaust are
almost
> incalculable, too horrific in quality and dimensions to be measured
or
> fully appreciated by any of us.
> What I find curious, however, is the SELECTIVITY of the American
Jew when
> it comes to that feeling of vulnerability. There's a wide
disconnect
> between the American Jew who rightly feels that vulnerability and
their
> dismissive attitude toward the vulnerability that American blacks
still
> feel today.
> The Holocaust took place half a world away.
> Slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, marginalization, substandard segregated
> schools, literacy test and poll taxes to vote took place right here
in
> OUR states and communities.
> The Holocaust took place more than sixty years ago.
> The German shepherds and fire hoses turned on blacks in our own
country
> occurred while many of us were alive......just over forty years
ago.
> The Holocaust was the creation of persons living in other countries,
> speaking an entirely different language, and following the
teachings of
> political parties rarely known in this country.
> 350 years of slavery, Jim Crow, continuing prejudice, continuing
> disparities in educational and job opportunity, continuing
disparities in
> treatment by the criminal justice system took place, and take place,
> RIGHT HERE in the U.S.
> So when a U.S. Jew tells me that s/he lives with an indelible fear
or
> vulnerability inherited from the fact of the Holocaust, but at the
same
> time dismisses the vulnerability that may be felt by an African
American
> whose cousins were fire-hosed, harassed and lynched right here in
> America, I wonder whether we don't just have a very egotistical
form of
> victimology.
>
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