By Thomas Muhammad
Let me say right out front that I am now, have been and always will be a strong supporter of the Palestinian people and their just rights!
So, yes put me in that so called anti-Semitic camp with my awesome Sistah Whoopi!
She totally deserves support for exposing this uncovered historical truth: that what happened in Germany was between Jews (whites) and Germans whites). Jews have forever been allowed to blend easily between white people taking advantage of white skin privilege and then turn around and play that Holocaust sufferers/victims game to escape punishments for Jewish wrong doings!
To prove Whoopi’s point about Jews as Whites, read James Baldwin’s column he wrote in The New York Times in 1967 entitled, Why Negroes Are Anti-Semitic.
He wrote. “When we were growing up in Harlem our demoralizing series of landlords were Jewish, and we hated them. We hated them because they were terrible landlords, and did not take care of the building. A coat of paint, a broken window, a stopped sink, a stopped toilet, a sagging floor, a broken ceiling, a dangerous stairwell, the question of garbage disposal, the ques- tion of heat and cold, of roaches and rats–all questions of life and death for the poor, and especially for those with children–we had to cope with all of these as best we could. Our parents were lashed to futureless jobs, in order to pay the outrageous rent. We knew that the landlord treated us this way only because we were colored, and he knew that we could not move out!”
Also re-watch the film “Driving Miss Daisy,” in the scene where actor Morgan Freeman’s character insisted that he go to the nearby woods and relieve himself?Miss Daisy had gotten in the car after an outing with her white friends. Freeman, her driver, had been waiting for hours patiently in their car!
Daisy, who had eaten, chatted and relieved herself while at the diner, but her driver Freeman couldn’t go in, because of his black skin! The southern rule was that he would have to go to the woods and do his business!
I also remember growing up in Texas and my parents and I had to do the very same thing!
Every year, whenever we would stop at a gas station while driving to our grandparents farm to spend time with our other aunts and cousins in Crockett, Texas, we were able to buy gas, but weren’t by law able to use the bathrooms. We had to go to the brush and trees!
I’m talking about our whole family and as the only boy in our family, I had to go to a tree with my dad and stand guard for my mother and sisters as they did their business.
But in the movie Miss Daisy’s white skin blended right in. Case closed!
Nikki Haley the former US Ambassador under Trump is Pakistani American and has a skin darker than mine! She identifies her race as white on her driver license; meaning she clearly knows how to play the race game.
As for Goldblat! His answer for Whoopi was to place a Jewish host on their panel!
My guess is he wants another “White” panelist right? Until then Struggle Continues…. Thomas Muhammad is a local Dallas activist who can be reached at tmuhammad2003@yahoo.com
