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Why are we(blacks) SO concerned about anti-semitism? Or, whether this jewish women was disrespected by a supposed member of the fratnerity has anything to do with our issues as acommunity.
ReplyDeleteNo, disrepect brother, but just because a couple of jews, or others sympathizers fell in a noble cause(s)doesn't mean that there are no legitiment beef.
Just like the 60-70s and other period thru out history, jews and their europeon counterparts have used OUR trials and tibualations to further their own i.e. gays rights, and the so called women lib. Let's face it THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT of the 60's was a
consumer movement not a HUMAN RIGHT MOVEMENT. Like remember that the Constitution starts with..."we
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR(my emphasis) with certain unalienable Rights,that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Sounds like HUMAN RIGHTS to me. Before you or anyone get all up in arms, lets look at the facts, our community lost our sense of self
reliance because of that strategy, we felt like we had to eat with them in their resturants, sleep in their hotels, by taking that stand black resturants and hotel owners went out of business. Now if that's
progess, it's no wonder why we are mired in our present situation, clinging to false dreams and promises. Also, blacks thru american history have engaged in
MOVEMENTS on the scale, if not larger, than the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT of the 60's i.e...Marcus Gavery Universal Negro Improvement Association, naacp, to name a few.
Furthermore, "...100 years before the 60s and 70s,In the 1860s and 1870 there were federal laws protecting voting rights in the south..." "[also] a prototypical war on poverty[from the 1860s-1870](the FREEDMAN BUREAU) and putting on the books civil rights laws which were in some instances stronger than the civil rights passed in the 1960-1970..." Amos Wilson- The Falsification of Afikan Consciousness (Good Book!!!) I'm not trying give a discertion nor a history lesson, but we need to concentrate on our issues and leave emotional reactions to anti-semitism to the semites.
-RT
I think the organizers of the event should have discontinued Rev. Lee's talk. You do not invite people to your home to insult them. If this is true it's a sad commentary on Kappa. She should be invited to our summer event and lifted up.
ReplyDeleteLee E. Monroe
Under no circumstance, should we ever allow our feelings for any group of people (whether or not justified) to be a justification for improper behavior directed toward an individual.
ReplyDeleteNeither race or religion should have an effect on our judgement of this person's inappropriate treatment of this woman.
Marvin Bell
There may be legitimate beefs with Jews my Brother, and I have absolutely no problem with that. But there is a time and place for everything. The beef was not with this lady in particular so she should not have been disrespected. She was an invited guest. Thats not the Kappa way. At least not the Kappas I'm familiar with. Right is right and wrong won't make it right.
ReplyDeleteMel Williams