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I tend to agree with the one commenter that black anti-Semitism is rooted in jealousy, and I have privately suspected this for a long time. I am neither black nor Jewish, but when I hear militant, angry, self-pitying blacks loudly trumpet the figure of “400 years” of oppression, I get the distinct feeling they are trying to say that this statistic makes them the most oppressed people in history, and that their oppression entitles them to whatever recompense they demand in the name of achieving a purported “racial justice.” Jews generally, and American Jews in particular, enrage the black bigot not because of any especially grievous sin on the Jews’ part, but because the very history of the Jews – a tale of suffering that goes back not 400 years, but literally thousands of years – completely discredits the angry black militant’s rather narcissistic claim that he is the gold medalist in the Olympics of victimhood. The reality of Jewish history undermines the black anti-Semite’s sense of historical and racial entitlement deriving from this claim to supreme victimhood, and it moreover affronts his ugly racial vanity.

In sum, I think one can respectfully honor the memory of blacks who suffered terribly in the distant past without kowtowing like politically correct invertebrates to modern day black charlatans who use guilt as a psychological weapon with which to bully whites, and then incite hatred among fellow blacks toward any white people, especially Jews, who refuse to fall for their despicable con game.

As for Eric Lee, I hope Roger is right that he has turned a corner, but one man’s conversion to decency is not enough to absolve black-Americans of the need to examine their own history of moral backwardness.