- Just about every year on the eve of the national holiday
of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the mainstream media in the United
States usually puts forth numerous articles about the large Jewish involvement
with Dr. King and the equally large Jewish involvement with the Black American
Civil Rights movement in general. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media's
description of this phenomena is seen through rose-colored glasses. Jewish
influence in Black American affairs is portrayed as overwhelmingly selfless,
altruistic, charitable and humane. But is this really true? Let's take
a look.
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- The Nation of Islam, a Black religious group, published
a very important study of Jewish involvement with the Black slave trade.
Entitled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (SRBBJ), it is
a well documented and well argued book, and the authors attempt to make
this clear from the very beginning: "The information contained herein
has been compiled primarily from Jewish historical literature. Every effort
has been made to present evidence from the most respected of the Jewish
authorities and whose works appear in established historical journals or
are published by authoritative Jewish publishing houses." The Black
American expert on the slave trade, Dr. Tony Martin, has endorsed the book,
as he has made it assigned reading in his courses. I have investigated
at least some of the sources and they do indeed check out.
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- In the book's "Introduction," we read: "Deep
within the recesses of the Jewish historical record is the irrefutable
evidence that the most prominent of the Jewish pilgrim fathers used kidnapped
Black Africans disproportionately more than any other ethnic or religious
group in New World history and participated in every aspect of the international
slave trade." Further on it is written: "Most have always assumed
that the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been mutually supportive,
friendly and fruitful--two suffering people bonding to overcome hatred
and bigotry to achieve success. But history tells an altogether different
story."
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- Not surprisingly, Jewish-Zionist groups, and those allied
with them, have attempted to blacken the book's reputation. Unable to
refute its thesis, they resort to smear tactics. But Black Americans would
do well to heed SRBBJ's advice. The relationship between Blacks and Jews
they write, "is a relationship that needs further analysis...Hidden
and misunderstood, it is indeed time to reopen the files and reconsider,
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews."
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- Black American intellectual Harold Cruse and California
psychology professor Kevin MacDonald have also chosen to fearlessly scrutinize
Jewish involvement in Black affairs. Both have written some very insightful
analyses of the question: Why were Jews so disproportionately involved
in the Black Civil Rights movement? In their books (Cruse, The Crisis
of the Negro Intellectual; MacDonald, The Culture of Critique) they have
noted that many Jews want a racially integrated society because it provides
an adequate environment for their long term policy of non-assimilation
and group solidarity. Many Jews view white/Euro-American nationalism as
their greatest potential threat, and they promote racial integration precisely
because this presumably dilutes Euro-American power and lessens the possibility
of developing a powerful and cohesive Euro-American movement that stands
in opposition to Jewish interests.
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- There is evidence that supports their viewpoints. If
the primary motive of the Jewish groups that were involved in the Black
American Civil Rights movement was to promote racial equality and racial
integration, then we should expect they would promote racial equality and
ethnic integration in Israel just as ardently as they promoted it in the
United States. But this is not the case. For the most part, the Jewish
groups that were working to create a racially integrated society in the
US were the same Jewish groups that were and are ardent supporters of the
ethnically segregated, apartheid state of Israel where racial segregation
and Jewish supremacism are enshrined in law. The Jewish scholar, Uri Davis,
has written a book, the title of which says it all--Israel: An Apartheid
State.
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- If there is ever to be harmony between the races in the
United States, then we are all going have to literally lay "all of
the cards on the table." That is to say, Blacks and whites, Jews and
non-Jews, are going to have to discuss these racial problems in an open,
honest and forthright manner, free of name-calling and emotional outbursts.
And the reasons for Jewish involvement in Black affairs has been, for
the most part, surrounded by taboos, and "off-limits" for discussion.
It is about time that Black Americans--and all other Americans for that
matter--break down these taboos and reconsider Jewish involvement in Black
American affairs.
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