re: #297 eclectic infidel

There definitely is a lot of anti-semetism in the black community, fostered and propagated by Farrakhan and many others. It’s a problem that black and Jewish leaders need to work on, and individual blacks need to address as well.

However, I also know elderly Jewish people— otherwise lovely— who are casually racists about blacks, so I’m really unsure what you’re trying to prove by relating your anecdotes. I’m sorry you had to encounter such ugly things, but when you say this:

I get the impression that African-Americans are trying to equate their ‘troubles’ with that of the Jews.

You are not speaking of those you met, but speaking of all African-Americans. And that is unwise, to say the least.