Kevin MacDonald, Donald Trump and the Jews

Jeff* says: Kevin MacDonald is off base here.

Most Jews are democrats and even if Sanders were the nominee he would still get 70% of the Jewish vote. Hillary will get at least 80% of the Jewish vote.

If the Republican candidate is anyone but Trump, that person will get less than 20% of the Jewish vote. Trump will cross over and get the highest percentage of a Jewish vote for a Republican in living memory.

What MacDonald is focusing on is the Jewish media/pundit class. These are either liberals who wouldn’t vote for any Republican or NeoConservatives whose standard for supporting a Republican is based on unconditional support for Likudnik policies. Immigration has nothing to do with it. Even though Adelson supports amnesty, that is not his reason for supporting Rubio or in the last election cycle Gingrich. It is wholly about Israel.

But the love of Rubio, and dislike of Trump from Kristol (who wants to form a third party if Trump gets the nod), Krauthammer, Podhoretz, is based on Rubio’s embrace of a neo conservative foreign policy, especially when it comes to Israel.

As an example of Jewish pundits who do support a crackdown on immigration, Mickey Kaus has been tireless, even challenging Barbara Boxer for her last senate run, David Frum has taken the side of the immigration restrictionists despite being a neocon, and even Bernie Sanders has drawn the connection between unemployment and immigration.

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DONALD TRUMP RIGHTS SHIP ON IMMIGRATION: DEMANDS DISNEY REHIRE WORKERS REPLACED BY CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR, CALLS RUBIO ‘SILICON VALLEY’S PUPPET’

Comment: “Trump has come out strongly against the H-1B visa again. It seems like someone (Jeff Sessions probably) talked some sense into him. Trump also called on Disney to rehire the workers they replaced with the H1b.”

BNN: The media has been filled with stories about companies flying in low-wage H-1B workers to replace American workers in tech jobs. Adding insult to injury, these American workers have been forced to train their replacements. If you were President, would you put a stop to this practice?

DT: Day one. This is why I got into this race. Because the everyday working person in this country is getting screwed. Lobbyists write the rules to benefit the rich and powerful. They buy off Senators like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%
to help them get rich at the expense of working Americans by using H-1B visas–so called “high tech” visas–to replace American workers in all sorts of solid middle class jobs. If I am President, I will not issue any H-1B visas to companies that replace American workers and my Department of Justice will pursue action against them.

BNN: Hundreds of workers at Disney were forced to train their foreign replacements. But while Florida Senator Nelson rallied to their cause, Senator Rubio did not. While Nelson has called for an investigation, Rubio has not. While Nelson has called to reduce H-1Bs, Rubio has demanded more. Senator Rubio has been the top promoter in Congress for expanding the H-1B program even though millions American tech workers are out of jobs. Rubio’s new bill triples H-1Bs and has zero protections for American workers. Advocates for tech workers said Rubio’s bill would “destroy” the U.S. tech workforce. Rubio’s bill is even endorsed by the CEO of Disney. What do you think of Rubio’s bill?

DT: It’s a disaster. It would allow any company in America to replace any worker with cheaper foreign labor. It legalizes job theft. It gives companies the legal right to pass over Americans, displace Americans, or directly replace Americans for good-paying middle class jobs. More than 80 percent of these H-1Bs are paid less than the average wage. Senator Rubio works for the lobbyists, not for Americans. That is why he is receiving more money from Silicon Valley than any other candidate in this race. He is their puppet.

BNN: During the debate, Senator Rubio listed several protections he thought American workers should receive. But the New York Times said Rubio’s bill would does the opposite of what he said, and does not contain a single one of the protections he mentioned. Instead, his bill simply triples the number of H-1B visas given as low-wage substitutes to corporations. Does Rubio have a problem with the truth?

DT: Yes, Senator Rubio is incapable of telling the truth. He should be disqualified for dishonesty alone.

BNN: Do you think agree with Senator Rubio that there is a shortage of talented Americans?

DT: Rubio is dead wrong. America produces the best and brightest in the world. It’s time to stand up for own students–many of whom are racked with terrible, terrible debt and facing a disastrous job market. We are graduating two times more students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) than find jobs in those fields every year. We have a surplus of talented Americans and we need them to get jobs first.

BNN: What should happen with the Florida workers who have been replaced?

DT: I am calling TODAY on Disney to hire back every one of the workers they replaced, and I am calling on Rubio to immediately rescind his sponsorship of the I-Squared bill and apologize to every Floridian for endorsing it. I am further calling on Rubio to return the money he has received from Silicon Valley CEOs and to donate the money to a charity helping unemployed Americans whose jobs Rubio has helped to destroy.

Comment to Steve Sailer: At a Nevada rally, Trump came out against H1bs replacing American workers.

He said he’s only for foreign graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford staying. Which seems reasonable. Not because those grads should stay, but because the numbers are trivial enough. The overwhelming majority of H1bs (75%) are non-US graduates. Of the remaining 25% H1bs who graduate from US schools, almost all graduate from tier 2 and tier 3 US universities. The number of foreign Ivy graduates is really small, especially since they have smaller STEM departments.

Published on Oct 29, 2015
Following CNBC’s GOP debate, Donald Trump brought his campaign to The Nugget Casino in Sparks, Nevada, where he will held a rally Thursday afternoon. Donald Trump threw out the idea today that future Republican debate moderators should have to show that they vote Republican. A rally goer at a Trump campaign event in Nevada today asked why they can’t get rid of future debate moderators. A big consensus today is that CNBC came out of yesterday’s debate looking really bad. Trump today said, “These moderators, they’re not big Republican voters… we’re having a Republican debate. Maybe every moderator should show that they vote Republican.” After all, he asked, “why should we have these people that hate everything we stand for?”A group of protesters, complete with a Mariachi band, staged a peaceful protest against Donald Trump outside The Nugget in Sparks Thursday, fearful of Republican presidential candidate’s proposed immigration plans. About 20 protesters, organized by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, marched on the public sidewalks outside of hotel-casino as a crowd of about 4,000 gathered inside to hear Trump, a leading GOP candidate for president. Trump told the crowd at his rally that he is “No.1 with Hispanics in Nevada” because he would create jobs and get back jobs that have gone to foreign counties. Meanwhile, the protesters said Trump has advocated the massive deportation of undocumented non-citizens back to their nation of origin. Protesters said it would tear apart many Latino families that have undocumented members. “The main message today is about his (Trump’s) extreme and racist anti-immigration views,” said PLAN executive director Bob Fulkerson. “But of course, he would be a disaster on everything else we care about, from clean air, clean water, turning everything over to corporate control. It’s terrifying.” As Fulkerson spoke, a Trump supporter walked by and chanted, “Build a wall, build a wall,” referring to Trump’s past statements that he wanted to partially solve the nation’s illegal immigration problem by building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. The protesters did not respond.

* But when polled, “American” citizens consistently prefer lower rates of both legal and illegal immigration. It is the financial, media and cultural elites that push for open borders. Just because our bought and paid for politicians and media clowns support a particular policy, does not mean that “Americans” do not prefer a different policy. It is likely possible that a pollster can come up with a study that shows that a majority of Americans support “comprehensive immigration reform” because the term is effectively meaningless. If the same poll was changed to “Do you support mass amnesty and continued open immigration?” the poll results from “Americans” would be very different.

The Elites do not care about marginal returns on immigration because they are taking the skim from the aggregate increased demand, but any losses are socialized. Goldman Sachs, Walmart and McDonalds do not care about the per capita benefit to American citizens as long as their take from the ever increasing pie keeps increasing. Add in those elites who are actually hostile to American culture and society for ideological reasons, and you have the interested parties that determine our current immigration policy.

* Jeb always had sub-par, sluggish aura about him, it didn’t help that he looked like a special needs adult either.

* That description is very apt, although I would substitute “mental patient” for special needs adult. Every time I look at Jeb Bush, I get the distinct feeling that I’m seeing a middle-aged, high-functioning schizophrenic walking around in a Thorazine fog. That probably is a pretty fair characterization of his actual mental state, come to think of it.

By contrast, I couldn’t help but notice how tall and robust Donald Trump looked last night among the other candidates. Even though Trump is obviously no longer a young man, what with the cotton candy hairdo and the sagging facial skin, he somehow embodies real solidity and determination.

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White Autogenocide Is A Massive Loss Of Frame

From the Chateau: Framing and reframing are core Game concepts that every Chateau guest should by now understand and have internalized. The topic has been discussed frequently here at CH, and deserves that level of scrutiny because framing has broader applications beyond seducing women.

A frame is a system of interpretation that an individual or group uses to understand a certain event/situation.

Frame is important in pickup, because it communicates the PUA’s mindset as well as the underlying psychology behind his words and actions. For example, Swinggcat advocates a “prizing” frame, whereby the PUA always assumes the girl is interested in him as the prize. In this frame, a chick can say, “I really like the tie”. The PUA can respond, “Thank you, slow down a little bit. At least buy me a drink before you hit on me like that.” […]

“Framing”, [or frame control], in the context of media studies, sociology and psychology, refers to the social construction of a social phenomenon by mass media sources or specific political or social movements or organizations. It is an inevitable process of selective influence over the individual’s perception.

In pickup, as with mass media, there are always certain levels of interpretation of a specific event that can be reframed based on frame control, and your emotions and conviction in your beliefs.

Pay attention to that word conviction. It’s critical to knowing why cuckservatives are so cucked, and why they can’t ever seem to go on the offense against anti-White leftoids.

For now, a helpful (and amended) reminder of a relevant CH maxim:

Maxim #45: Any conversation with a woman/leftoid/Hivemind jackboot that is not explicitly framed by you to maximize your perceived status will lead to her/the leftoid/the Hivemind forming a negative perception of your value over time.

Which brings us to a comment left by reader Moses,

I’ve said it before and I’m gonna keep saying it:

White self-immolation is nothing more than a loss of frame on a massive scale.

When whites began elevating other groups’ interests of White interests it was a loss of frame on a societal level.

Other ethnic groups saw an opportunity to exploit White guilt and did so — and continue to do so — brilliantly.

Non-Whites have only the power that Whites give to them. It’s true that Whites deserve whatever they get. And they will get it good and hard.

Moses is right. A massive loss of frame will not just send you home alone a (self-)beaten incel; it will also send your civilization and your race to an incel defeat.

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Republican Elites Settle On Marco Rubio

Steve Sailer writes: After the 2012 election, the GOP Brain Trust decided the highest priority was to run a Presidential candidate who was obviously all on board with electing a new people. Granted, mostly old white people vote in Republican primaries, but are you going to let little things like elections stand in the way of a strategic masterplan?

The experts initially settled upon Latino-in-Law Jeb Bush on the grounds that Jeb’s Mommy Issues that led him to marry the woman in the world least like ol’ Barb made him the perfect fit. But those pesky Republican voters have so far failed to grasp the palpable brilliance of this strategy. So last night the experts shifted their allegiance from the Latino-in-Law to the Birthright Latino.

Comments:

* Barbara and Columba ended up being more alike than he bargained for – both moody, lonely women whom Jeb considered his duty to try to placate and tiptoe around. Barbara anguished about her rapid loss of youthful beauty as HW globetrotted and flirted around during the 1960s-70s, and Columba dealt with homesickness and culture shock. They both put the weight of the world on Jeb’s dutiful shoulders.

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American Stupidity

Steve Sailer writes: Commenter notsaying observes:

We [Americans] are still strikingly unable to process the thought that changing facts on the ground re immigration may require a change in our laws and regulations — as well as our expectations and attitudes. The ideas that many American have that because we used to take in lots of people we must always do so and that because illegal immigration is bad that therefore all legal immigration is good are very strong.

It would be hugely beneficial if Americans realized they could change their minds about policies going forward without admitting they were wrong in the past. We’d have better policies in the future if pundits could come out and say, I was in favor of X in the past and I was right, but now conditions have changed, so I no longer favor X.

In particular, we’d be better off with more Declare-Victory-and-Go-Home decisions. Vastly increasing immigration has done wonders for availability of ethnic food, but the marginal returns on that have been diminishing steadily. Why not declare victory and go home?

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A YouTube account is rewriting Disney tunes to be racist

From Fusion:

There’s a song in the movie Mulan, “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.” You’ve probably heard it; it begins “Let’s get down to business! To defeat the Huns.”

In the ultra-conservative parody version rewritten by Uncuck The Right, the song starts “Let’s get down to business! To defeat the Left.” That version goes on to cheerfully explain to never “punch rightward,” and to never “be afraid to discuss White interests.”

It’s a singalong, one of Uncuck the Right’s increasingly popular parody Disney tunes. The videos are meant to appeal to and unite the alt-right, a loosely defined coalition of self-described racists, Dark Enlightenment adherents, and ardent social conservatives, among others.

The songs, with their discussions of white supremacy and generally racist and sexist lyrics, would be horrifying to most viewers. But when I asked the creator of Uncuck the Right (hereafter UTR) about them, he responded with a provocation:

What you feel when watching my videos is the same thing I feel when I watch John Oliver”

I don’t know much about UTR as a person. When I contacted him via his YouTube channel and asked if I could interview him he obliged, but said that “for security reasons” ( he couldn’t talk on the phone or over Skype.

What he was willing to say, over email, is that he’s “a young white man who is tired of seeing his people celebrate their dispossession.” Liberal as a kid, reading Austrian economics moved him towards libertarianism; the failure of Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign moved him even farther to the right. He says he’s been posting in /pol/, the 4chan and 8chan’s anarchic, often right-leaning “Politically Incorrect” boards, for years. But his decision to get more actively involved with the alt right came this summer “when the cuckservative meme became big and the Alt Right started to explode.”

That also coincided with a name change from prodicusthegod (a reference to an obscure Greek philosopher) to Uncuck the Right.

“Cuckservative” is a portmanteau, of “cuckold” and “conservative,” which has been around for years, but whose popularity ballooned this summer. As The New Republic’s Jeet Heer explained, it “emerged out of the white supremacist movement as a term of abuse for white conservatives deemed race traitors unwilling to forthrightly defend the interests of white America.” For his part UTR prefers the term “white identitarian” because, as he puts it, “‘white nationalist’ evokes certain imagery in the popular consciousness that is incongruous with my ideology”

In two months he’s posted 12 videos, which have garnered 147,864 views and 2,356 subscribers as of this writing. He’s not the first among the alt right to re-write songs, but he is one of the most successful. So far all his videos are parodies of Disney songs, though he says he plans “to expand to other show tunes in the future.”

(At this point, a disclosure: ABC/Disney is one of Fusion’s parent companies, along with Univision. I contacted Disney for comment on the videos, but they have yet to respond to my request.)

The most popular of UTR’s parodies by far is titled “This is Dildoween,”a re-dubbed version of the opening tune of The Nightmare Before Christmas. In the UTR version the denizens of Halloween Town are caricatures of Latin American immigrants, Hollywood producers, and college professors melodically explaining their promotion of a medley of different alt-right fears that include increasing immigration, “cultural marxism,” and sexual liberation.

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The Brilliance Of Obama’s 2008 Race Speech

Charles Murray writes for NRO’s The Corner in 2008: “I read the various posts here on “The Corner,” mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama’s speech. Then I figured I’d better read the text (I tried to find a video of it, but couldn’t). I’ve just finished. Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I’m concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant–rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we’re used to from our pols…. But you know me. Starry-eyed Obama groupie.”

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Towards An Honest Discussion About Race

Steve Sailer writes:

I have found that, in the African-American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.

—Biracial novelist Mat Johnson, Loving Day, 2015

America’s foremost public intellectual, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has published a new best-selling minibook, Between the World and Me, that’s interesting for what it reveals about a forbidden subject: the psychological damage done by pervasive black violence to soft, sensitive, bookish souls such as Coates. The Atlantic writer’s black radical parents forced the frightened child to grow up in Baltimore’s black community, where he lived in constant terror of the other boys. Any white person who wrote as intensely about how blacks scared him would be career-crucified out of his job, so it’s striking to read Coates recounting at length how horrible it is to live around poor blacks if you are a timid, retiring sort.

Coates’ lack of physical courage is a common and perfectly reasonable trait, although writers typically cover it up. For example, Hunter S. Thompson transmuted his recurrent paranoia about impending carnage (which beset him even in venues as family-friendly as the Circus-Circus casino) into hallucinatory comedy in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Coates, however, is humorless. Worse, his fans have encouraged him to believe he is the second coming of James Baldwin, egging him on to indulge in a prophetic-hysteric-postmodern style that is easier to parody (e.g., just repeat endlessly the phrase “black bodies” and the distractingly stupid formulation “people who believe they are white”) than it is to endure over even the course of Coates’ very short second autobiography. (As with the president, both of Coates’ books are memoirs.)

“Coates has thus elaborated a theory of history in which everything bad ever done by blacks is the fault of American whites (whom he describes—metaphorically, I hope—as ‘cannibals’).”

White writers have seldom had the courage to confess their fear of black violence so fully, at least not since 1963, when Norman Podhoretz responded to the hullabaloo over James Baldwin with an essay about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s:

And so for a long time I was puzzled to think that…Negroes were supposed to be persecuted when it was the Negroes who were doing the only persecuting I knew about—and doing it, moreover, to me…. A city boy’s world is contained within three or four square blocks, and in my world it was the whites, the Italians and Jews, who feared the Negroes, not the other way around. The Negroes were tougher than we were, more ruthless, and on the whole they were better athletes…. Yet my sister’s opinions, like print, were sacred, and when she told me about exploitation and economic forces I believed her. I believed her, but I was still afraid of Negroes.

In the 52 years since Podhoretz’s “My Negro Problem—And Ours,” overwhelming evidence has piled up validating the prescience of his boyhood traumas at the hands of black juvenile delinquents. But it’s precisely because the scale of black violence over the past half century is so blatantly obvious that white intellectuals have been largely self-silenced on the topic—even as the most cunning minds among today’s liberal whites plot to reverse the mistake their grandparents made in fearfully ceding much of the best urban turf to black criminality.

The central real estate question of this century has become: How can big cities drop their hot potato of poor urban blacks in the laps of naive suburbs and small towns? That helps explain the unhinged reaction among elites to Donald Trump publicly pointing out that Mexico isn’t sending us its highest-quality citizens to be our illegal aliens. The unspoken plan is to continue to use the more docile Hispanics newcomers to shove the more dangerous African-American citizens out of desirable cities; thus, only a class traitor like Trump would dare allude to the unfortunate side effects suffered by the rest of the country.

Despite all the violence Coates has suffered at the hands of other blacks, his racial loyalty remains admirably adamantine. Thus, his ploy, as psychologically transparent as it is popular with liberal whites, is to blame his lifelong petrified unhappiness on the white suburbanites he envied for being able to live far from black thugs.

Unfortunately for Coates’ persuasiveness, white people, unlike blacks, have never actually done anything terribly bad to him. The worst memory he can dredge up is the time an Upper West Side white woman pushed his 4-year-old son to get the dawdling kid to stop clogging an escalator exit. She even had the racist nerve to say, “Come on!”

Coates reacted as unreasonably as a guest star on Seinfeld would. Ever since this Escalator Incident, he’s been dwelling on how, while it might have looked like yet another example of blacks behaving badly, it was, when you stop to think about slavery and Crow (not to mention redlining), really all the fault of whites.

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How The LA Times Plays Games With Race

David Cole Stein writes: I’ll give you a few genuine examples of how the media plays games with race, using my hometown paper of record, the L.A. Times (the paper with the fourth-largest circulation in the U.S.), as a case study. In July 2002, two Inglewood, Calif., cops were accused of roughing up a black gentleman. The Times trumpeted the story—two white cops beat an innocent black dude. Except that one of the cops, Bijan Darvish, was Persian. His LAPD file read “nonwhite/Persian.” Times ombudswoman Jamie Gold admitted to me that calling him white violated Times policy (“officers must be described as they are in their police file”), but she sent me several paragraphs of text arguing that Persians are white whether they admit it or not. Essentially, her argument was “we violated our policy, but we didn’t lie.”

“For the Times editors, this was a disaster. Thompson was black; Happe was not just white but blond.”

That’s pure artistry! Ginning up a white-on-black incident, maybe selling a few extra papers, maybe provoking a riot or two, but having a back-pocket rationalization to refute accusations of lying.

Another example is a front-page Times story from 2002 about a plague of black and Hispanic pedestrian deaths. Blacks and Hispanics were being run over at “disproportional” rates. Were racist L.A. drivers targeting people of color? As enticing a plotline for a 1970s blaxploitation film as that may be, there was a problem: In the article, the figures of black and Hispanic pedestrian deaths were shown individually, while the white and Asian figures were lumped together. When I requested the complete figures from Times writer Hugo Martin, it turned out that whites were not being spared pedestrian hit-and-run deaths, but Asians were hit by cars at such an abnormally low rate that by combining the Asian stats with the white stats it gave the impression that both races were mysteriously safe from being struck while crossing a street (yet another example of Asians throwing off a curve). Again, a ginned-up “blacks and Hispanics are being victimized” story, but not as the result of an outright lie. Rather, just a crafty combination of otherwise accurate figures. Pure artistry.

During the 2003 recall election that put Arnold Schwarzenegger in the governor’s mansion, the Times produced a pre-recall poll that was so off, so obviously inaccurate (it showed Schwarzenegger losing by a huge margin to Hispanic Democrat Cruz Bustamante), even rival polling organizations cried foul. As the Field Poll organization pointed out, the Times had creatively overrepresented blacks and Asians among the respondents. And as I found out, after several phone calls to Times polling czarina Susan Pinkus, she had even more creatively overrepresented “white Hispanics” in the “white” category (an easy enough task, as over half of U.S. Hispanics list their race as white). Hence the lopsided and totally unrealistic numbers for Bustamante. Yet again, not so much a lie as the wily use of racial categorizing to engender a pro-Democrat result.

Sometimes, though, even the finest cunning can’t avoid disaster. In July 2002, a 5-year-old white girl in Orange County was abducted while playing in her front yard (her corpse was found soon after; she had been raped and suffocated). The Times, like every other local news organ, covered the story vigorously. Sadly for a paper that tries to avoid coverage of minority-on-white crime, when the rapist-murderer was caught, he turned out to be Latino. Caught unprepared, Times editors had to think fast. No, they didn’t Photoshop him as an albino; that would have been stupid and clumsy. Rather, they ran a piece practically apologizing for giving coverage to the disappearance of a white girl, and they ran a second piece assuring their readers that white people are more statistically likely than Latinos to be kidnapping rapist-murderers. See, they turned it into a teachable moment! Genius.

But what happens when a case provides no opportunity for cover and no room for shenanigans? That brings us to Roberta Happe and, by extension, my own personal Henry V “no mercy, no prisoners” moment regarding the left.

Roberta Happe was a beautiful 23-year-old woman, a recent graduate from USC with a business degree who eschewed the corporate world to devote her life to working with disadvantaged, developmentally disabled children. One evening in February 2001, as Happe was leaving work, she was abducted in a parking garage by a man named Jason Thompson, who made her drive to an ATM, where she was forced to withdraw $400. Thompson then raped, tortured, beat, stabbed, and strangled Happe, leaving her naked body in a Culver City park. By the next day, the LAPD had identified Thompson as the assailant. He’d left behind fingerprints, DNA, and his image on the ATM security camera. An APB was put out for Thompson, who—due to the horrifically brutal nature of the crime—was considered a major risk to strike again.

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Black, Brown, and Beyond: Exploring Issues of Race and Color within our LA Community

Rav Yosef Kanefsky (the most left-wing Orthodox rabbi on the West Coast) emails his list:

Dear friends,

Race relations has been a particularly painful theme in our country’s narrative, and continues to be so right up to today. From Ferguson to Baltimore, to Charleston, the powerfully charged issues of race, justice, and enduring social tensions have played out again and again. As I have mentioned over the last few months, it is vitally important that as religious Jews, we join the national conversation about justice, race and identity, and develop relationships with the African-American and Latino communities right here in our city.

With thanks to a group of dedicated BDJ volunteers, we will be having a great opportunity to address this issue. Now all we need is you!

We will begin with a process of educating ourselves about the experiences of being a person of color in Los Angeles, via:

1) Reading Groups: I encourage you to read the selected articles listed below, and to form small groups for thought and discussion.

2) Community Discussion: Please join us on Sunday, November 22nd at 7:30 PM (Location TBD) in what will undoubtedly be an extraordinary gathering as we host Vincent Jones, CEO and Chief Strategist of Reinvent Communications, and Tunua Thrash Ntuk, Executive Director of Local Initiative Support Corporation. Please save the date!

Also, if all goes as planned, on Shabbat morning of Martin Luther King Weekend, January 16th, 2016, we will be hosting one of LA’s most prominent African-American political leaders. Confirmation to follow!

I am so looking forward to our undertaking this important challenge as a community.

Warmly,
Rav Yosef

Selected Readings
1) Letter to My Son Tanehisi Coates

2) A 58-Year-Old Black Man Reflects on the Death Around Him Conor Friedersdorf

3) Viva Gentrification! Hector Tobar

4) In Years Since the Riots, a Changed Complexion in South Central Jennifer Medina

5) Does Asking White People for Moral Self-Reflection About Race Actually Work? Jesse Singal

6) Class of 2025 expected to be most diverse ever Pew Research

7) Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT Pew Social Trends

8) Mapping Segregation New York Times

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