FACEBOOK
TWITTER
Fighting Anti-Semitism
When I wrote my piece on Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), I was driven by the fact that I am a son of two intelligent parents who in one way or another have fought bigotry all their lives.
My mother grew up in College Park, Georgia, later moving to Forest Park where she met my father at some dance at Fort McPherson where my father was stationed—the start of two hard-working, liberal minds raising four kids and working to make a better world.
When my mother was a child (1940s), she and her family would often visit recreational-park lakes in the area and she was struck once by a park sign reading "Gentiles Only." So, she asked her mother what a gentile is.
Back then it wasn’t just the "coloreds" and whites who were segregated; it was also the Jews and the gentiles.
Later, the Protestant-turned Catholic-turned agnostic learned about Leo Frank—a Jewish lynching victim in early 20th-century Georgia— black taxis (that she rode to the consternation of concerned neighbors) and the sickness of segregation and stupidity.
Hate and bigotry stuck with her, more precisely fighting hate and bigotry stuck with her. Me too.
Next time, some idiot says anything about Jews, blacks, Latinos, my humble advice is that we rain on the ignorant prick.
Related Posts:
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=8750
Posted by Yanira Farray on Oct 1 2009, With 0 Reads, Filed under Of Interest. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
COMMENTS
To post, we ask that you login using Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail in the box below.Don't have a social network account? Register and Login direct with VT and post.
Before you post, read our Comment Policy - Feedback
There is GREED & Criminals in every RACE. Now that records are electronically keep in a more precise way, it is much easier to identify the “Theoretical Evolution” which is followed by the majority of the elite leader ship in America and around the world. In this moment of time of debt and world financial domination is simple to identify the RACE which controls the majority of Liquid assets. Couple that with a professed belief system and achieve a result. Go rain on yourself. It appears that you are the ignorant genetically coded colored raciest. Freedom means FREE. If YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT SOME ONE SAYS, YOU ARE FREE TO NOT LISTEN! Which is most likely what many do best.
The freedom of speech doesn’t include the right to incite violence or to say anything that comes to mind . smart people think before they speak . The above is just common curtsy.