Look, you can’t blame blacks who can’t quite get over the few hundred years of slavery and the few decades between its end until the civil rights adjustments were made. They don’t have the experience with depredation and inhumanity that Jews have. The few hundred years under the Pharaoh’s slave-masters were a start. The Assyrians managed to whip out a majority of our people and the Babylonians conquered the rest and took us away from our land as captives. The Persians let us return but then great Greek kings tried to systematically disrupt our culture. When that failed the Romans and their proxy kings had a good try at it. The Romans managed to kill a few million of us and then ship many of us around their empire as slaves. Those that remained in the Holy Land had the Byzantines to worry about and their making various aspects of Jewish life illegal. They set pogroms against the Jews when their wars with the Persians didn’t go as they wanted and then they enforced such a poverty on the Jews that exile became the choice of many more. Ah, then we had dhimmi status when the Arabs took over from both the Persians and the Byzantines. In Europe we had the Crusaders who tested their swords on the Jews before heading out to liberate the Holy Land. Edward Longshanks not only disemboweled Braveheart but also stole all Jewish property and then sent the Jews of London to drown in the English Channel. Those that survived made it to Spain and France. Then we had an education during the Spanish Inquisition and the French were often unfriendly. The Poles invited Jews to help them figure out how to establish a decent country and once things started going well there some of the the Jews got the periodic beatdown by the drunken Polish mobs who had to make someone suffer for Jesus’ time on the cross. Why not the ones who put him on it? No, not the Romans… the Jews. How about having your sons stolen from you by the Tzar’s army. They are trained to be Russian soldiers and when the family passes on the street, neither recognizes either as all Jewish tradition has been deprogrammed from them and their memory of home is distant… forgotten. The Cozsacks used to raid Jewish towns just to be sure the Jews remembered to be afraid. Did I mention the Church laws that made it illegal for a Jew to own land or join a guild? I’m sorry I don’t know as much about life in the Muslim World. There were periodic massacres and various infidel taxes plus you couldn’t cross the path of a Muslim while wearing shoes. All kinds of interesting cultural idiosyncrasies were forced on Jews living in the Muslim World and guess what, I left off quite a number of other Jewish experiences in the gentile world from the last 4.5 thousand years. We don’t forget it, frankly we still have anger and worries. We have the Persians suggesting that killing another 6 million of us could be fun. We have Arabs trying bit by bit to haggle for our land in exchange for signatures. But, we have a talent for forgiveness. Its no wonder that former Africans haven’t quite gotten that trick down as I don’t see quite as long a history with persecution. Kevin T. Keith, you are an overeducated ignoramus.
