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Mr. Brooks (David Brooks) has caught me by a large thought today. He
muses on how many of my fellow ‘white’ liberals and progressives now
wear ‘lenses’ through which they see many more things in this country in
racial terms. I also see many things in this country through those
lenses; those lenses are often necessary in this country.
But in terms of looking at other places around this slowly-cooking
globe, their utility can be and often is quite limited. In some other
places, such as Latin America and the Arab/Muslim world, they are also
necessary, all the more so since too many people in both regions will
tell you that such lenses are Completely Unnecessary Here!
Istagfarallah, we are Far Too Enlightened for that — as you pass a
market where African men are being sold. That’s
right, sold. The slave trade liveth yet in Libya and in other very
carefully out-of-the-way spots in North Africa and the rest of the
Muslim world. That slave trade has been going on for fourteen centuries
and has been, to date, between eight and twelve times as lethal as the transatlantic slave trade!
When
we look at Israel and the local Arabs through an American racial lens,
white liberals (along with too many people of color) tend to place those
lenses upside down. They would do far better to ask themselves: from
when Jews began returning to Eretz Israel in the 1880s (before modern
Zionism was born), who has been more willing to share land and power —
Jews or Arabs? The answer will always be, and still is, Jews.
Colonists do not want to share; they insist on all the power for themselves and crumbs for anyone else. This is the mindset of our unreconstructed peckerwoodies here (and probably in Australia) and it is also the mindset of the ‘Palestinians’ and their useful idiots. Who wants their state to be Judenrein? Israel is not, and never intends to be, Arab-rein. An indigenous population is, almost always, much readier to share than colonists ever have been, are, or ever will be.
Civil rights was, and still is, indicative of a desire to share power, not take it all away. It was, and still is, the White Power structure which insists on all for itself and virtually nothing for anyone else. Ditto for the ‘Pals’. Look at Israel’s situation through a lens of behavior patterns, my fellow libs and progs, and your outlook will change radically! And get rid of the preoccupation with your own Purity and Innocence! Our enemies on the Right share that obsession and, indeed, allow it to drive them mad! Thankfully, we’re not that far gone just yet, but, in seeking to do justice and right past and present wrongs, remember it’s what we do and its results that matters most, not some illusory Charlie-Brown’s-losing-baseball-team’s Sincerity, or Goodness, of ours! I don’t know about y’all but that is way down my list of what matters!
For people of color: read what brother Eldridge (Cleaver) had to say about Arab racism as opposed to any Israeli racism after living eight years in Algeria. Then think again in light of the above information. Also, remember that, before 1948, Jews were looked at by Arabs the way peckerwoodies, North and South, looked at those they called ‘common n***ers’. Then imagine how peckerwoodies feel when those ‘common n***ers’ prove themselves more than equal to to the ‘whites’! Need I write a jot or tittle more than that?
Colonists do not want to share; they insist on all the power for themselves and crumbs for anyone else. This is the mindset of our unreconstructed peckerwoodies here (and probably in Australia) and it is also the mindset of the ‘Palestinians’ and their useful idiots. Who wants their state to be Judenrein? Israel is not, and never intends to be, Arab-rein. An indigenous population is, almost always, much readier to share than colonists ever have been, are, or ever will be.
Civil rights was, and still is, indicative of a desire to share power, not take it all away. It was, and still is, the White Power structure which insists on all for itself and virtually nothing for anyone else. Ditto for the ‘Pals’. Look at Israel’s situation through a lens of behavior patterns, my fellow libs and progs, and your outlook will change radically! And get rid of the preoccupation with your own Purity and Innocence! Our enemies on the Right share that obsession and, indeed, allow it to drive them mad! Thankfully, we’re not that far gone just yet, but, in seeking to do justice and right past and present wrongs, remember it’s what we do and its results that matters most, not some illusory Charlie-Brown’s-losing-baseball-team’s Sincerity, or Goodness, of ours! I don’t know about y’all but that is way down my list of what matters!
For people of color: read what brother Eldridge (Cleaver) had to say about Arab racism as opposed to any Israeli racism after living eight years in Algeria. Then think again in light of the above information. Also, remember that, before 1948, Jews were looked at by Arabs the way peckerwoodies, North and South, looked at those they called ‘common n***ers’. Then imagine how peckerwoodies feel when those ‘common n***ers’ prove themselves more than equal to to the ‘whites’! Need I write a jot or tittle more than that?
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