Derrick Bell's ”understanding” of #antisemitism,& Farrakhan #tcot #jcot

RRD:There is no ”context”,for racism & anti-semitism.
Nothing ”makes” people racists or anti-semites.
There is no ”understanding” for racism & anti-semitism,& no excuse for either,ever.
Racism & anti-semitism are among the most primitive & barbaric forms of collectivism on earth.(Along with sexism).
And while people sometimes misuse the terms,there can be no doubt that the Louis Farrakhans and the Khalid Muhammads,fit the bill.
As someone who was a member of the Civil Rights movement,particularly in Mississippi(fn1),Bell's statements are MORE,not less shameful.

Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’ « Commentary Magazine

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/09/derrick-bell-jewish-neoconservative-racists/

....”I was furious. Even if everything he said was true, it was inexcusable not to mention what might have motivated blacks to feel this way, and to fail to talk about all the Jewish neoconservative racists who are undermining blacks in every way they can.

Bell went on to say, “Now, that wouldn’t excuse anti-Semitism, which is awful, but it would at least provide a context for this anger…”

It might seem nice of Bell to acknowledge the awfulness of anti-Semitism, but he didn’t mean it. The very same interview began as follows: “We should really appreciate the Louis Farrakhans and the Khalid Muhammads while we’ve got them.” Khalid Muhammad was Farrakhan’s right hand, who made a name for himself referring to Jews as, among many other things, “bloodsuckers” whose “father was the devil.” As for Farrakhan, if you need a refresher course in his vileness, look here.

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/on_jews.asp

Why exactly were we supposed to appreciate them? Quoth Bell: “While these guys talk a lot, they don’t do anything. The new crop of leaders are going to be a lot more dangerous and radical, and the next phase will probably be led by charismatic individuals, maybe teenagers, who urge that instead of killing each other, they should go out in gangs and kill a whole lot of white people.”....

Footnotes:

fn1

PBS - From Swastika to Jim Crow - Black-Jewish Relations

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fromswastikatojimcrow/relations.html

....”From the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Blacks and Jews marched arm-in-arm. In 1909, W.E.B. Dubois, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Stephen Wise and Henry Malkewitz formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). One year later other prominent Jewish and Black leaders created the Urban League. Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington worked together in 1912 to improve the educational system for Blacks in the South.

Thus, in the 1930s and '40s when Jewish refugee professors arrived at Southern Black Colleges, there was a history of overt empathy between Blacks and Jews, and the possibility of truly effective collaboration. Professor Ernst Borinski organized dinners at which Blacks and Whites would have to sit next to each other - a simple yet revolutionary act. Black students empathized with the cruelty these scholars had endured in Europe and trusted them more than other Whites. In fact, often Black students - as well as members of the Southern White community - saw these refugees as "some kind of colored folk."

The unique relationship that developed between these teachers and their students was in some ways a microcosm of what was beginning to happen in other parts of the United States. The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League were central to the campaign against racial prejudice. Jews made substantial financial contributions to many civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Urban League, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. About 50 percent of the civil rights attorneys in the South during the 1960s were Jews, as were over 50 percent of the Whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 to challenge Jim Crow Laws.”

BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1964: Three civil rights activists found dead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/4/newsid_2962000/lop

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