Letter to a Friend

@63 Puddy I figured the "r" word would get your attention.

I have no problem with a Black guy who says those genes are irrelevant. It is quite a different matter when you use your skin to defend your right to act like a racist.

You remind me of some librul Jews who crap on Israel and say that this is OK because a Yid can not be an antisemite. You remind me of Medved or Rabbi Lapin.



You want examples ...read your posts.

You denigrate Obama by playing games with his middle name and playing on the use of the sound Black kids used in their song about him.

This would be the equivalent of my referring Michael Moshe Medved or Lapin the Cheredi.

Why for you do this???

What issues of equlaity do you take on?

You never take on the cause of equality whether that is pushing for the much needed better schools or criticizing the Reprican party for this persistent racism.

You play not the not so subtle racist attacks on ACORN.

You give Rev Wright no respect while tolerating Bachman, Beck, and Bush.

Just ONCE, I would like to see the same sense of offense on your part about show Blacks like Steele and Thomas that I have with Medved or
the Capo's who work with the Christian right.

This is really not a right vs. left issue ... both sides have theior own forms of racism. Condescending toward the c0rrupt Black government of Detroit is as bad as pretending Bush's policies were not a Christian failure.

Let me use some Jewish history to make my point. In our Passover story we celebrate the liberation from slavery but not OUR liberation alone. As Jews we are taught that the lesson of Egypt, the lesson of Spain, the lesson of the Shoah should gbe a lesson for all people.

Does this mean all Jews must be liberal? Does it make Goldwater or Marx bad because they were converts? No. But when a Jew uses OUR heritage to defned herself against charges of bigotry, then the stakes must go up.

Same for Black people. SJ admires Obama not because he is Black but because he uses his heritage to help all people. I get a great thrill when I see all American kids celebrating Dr. King, do you get such a thrill?

Defending your sock puppet by putting on blackface is a cheap trick.