Healing the Rift between Blacks and Jews on Holocaust Day [VIDEO]
The stereotype of the Jewish merchant is alive, because people like Rev. Lee repeat it, not because it exists. If adults like Rev. Lee stop perpetuating it, a younger generation won’t have it drilled into their brains and it will cease to exist.
Also Benson, when you write that “for many if not most black people, slavery is just as significant today as the Nazi era is to Jews”, you seem to miss the point entirely. Jews as a group have made enormous efforts at reconciliation with the countries that massacred them. The memory of what happened is kept alive both to honor the dead and to be sure it doesn’t happen again, not to keep Jews in some constant state of anger and victimhood. It’s not today’s generation of Gemans who sent Jews to concentration camps, and Jews know that and don’t hold it against them. Some Jews in earlier generations did. My father wouldn’t buy a German car, for example. But after a generation or two, those feelings die out if they are not stoked and kept alive by professional victimhood profiteers.
It’s not really about Rev. Lee, Benson. It’s about his grandchildren.
