Rabbi in this video: “Jews are not famous for espousing the equality of all peoples.”
Comment: I heard a story about Rabbi Goldberg who studied many years ago in Chabad’s school in Paris. He had only one problem with Judiasm: It bothered him how the American bochrim had this word “schvartza” and looked at these black folks as some form of lower creatures. At the time, bochrim prepared for years for their trip to NY to the Rebbe, and he made it known that his one problem with Judiasm (racism) he will discuss with the rebbe when he gets to New York for yechidus.
Sure enough he arrived in NY. On his way out of the airport, he was hit in the head with a 2 by 4 swung by a black man. He survived the blow, but when it came to his yechidus, his questions had been fully resolved and there was no need to discuss this gashmius stuff.
The message here is that to all the poeple who complain that Crown Heights chassidim disrespect “shvartze’s,” that’s because you live in white suberbs where you never saw crime activity. We welcome you to spend a couple of days here in CH, but when your purse is scratched don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Every single CH resident, Black or white, has at one point in their lives dealt with a mugger, a gang, or received a blow or slash from a knife or from a fist. If you live here, you’ve had it.
In the sheltered environment of academia you will not learn about this criminal activity since it involves disrespect to the minority race of the mugger. Come here in CH and you will see a reality of THREE communities: 1) Jews 2) Blacks 3)Gangster kids (I’m intentionally not mentioning their race). All we want is to clean our streets from crime. Even the riots were not caused by our community’s blacks. It was caused by OUTSIDE GANG activists.
And why do we make such a fuss about crime? because we are a people who study g-d from an early age, and we learn very early that stealing and killing are against our God. You begin to look at criminals as if they are not God’s people. If the criminals are of a particular race, they are then embarrassing their entire race for their behavior.
