It’s hopeless to vie for the “black vote.” Free market, education, opportunities have not swayed the Jewish vote. Why should it sway the black vote.
Good question. I tend to believe that the Jews are an unique historical-politico-socio-psyco-cultural phenomenon that defy rational explanation. I think it’s a mistake to project their experience on any other group.
Having said that, black Americans have a rather complicated historical-politico-socio-psyco-cultural system going, and it’s not at all clear what those dynamics are. In some ways, they’re very similar to the Jews (history of persecution and slavery), in other ways they’re diametrically opposite (cultural continuity and long-held traditions).
I just don’t know. But I don’t think you can simply infer one from the other.
