I
need to address some incredibly offensive, inaccurate, and racist
comments by . . . some dude whose name is not even important to this
discussion. His arrogant comments however need to be addressed. In
several deluded comments he made in response to a piece I wrote
explaining why white people cannot claim to be victims of racism, he
made some statements that were patently untrue. He claims that there
have been lots of other races of people who have been enslaved and had
their histories, identities, religions, and names stolen from them and
they aren’t whining and crying about it like us sniveling African
Americans. Well, let me set the record straight.
First and foremost, there has never been another group of people
kidnapped from their homeland, forced to give up their names, forced to
give up their language, forced to give up their families, art, history,
culture, and their entire identities to the same extent as Africans who
were enslaved in America. Not the Irish, not the Jews, not Cambodians,
no one on the planet has endured what the descendants of slaves
suffered. Want to know how I know this? Because white people won’t let
you forget about Jon Benet Ramsey 30 years later, they won’t let you
forget about OJ Simpson, you know they would never let you forget about
something as horrific as an event that robbed them of their humanity for
generations. The racist troll stated that the Jewish people were
enslaved and they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and it’s only
us lowly niggers who keep insisting that we are the victims of racism.
OK, so let me ask a few questions to see if the tragedy of the Jewish
Holocaust compares to the tragedy of slavery in a game I like to call
Oppression Olympics.
1. How long were the Jewish people enslaved during the Holocaust?
Was it for generations? Were Jews taken into concentration camps and
made to live there under German rule as inferiors for multiple
generations without being able to read, write, or get any education?
No, they weren’t. The individuals who entered the concentration camps
knew freedom, autonomy, they knew independence before they were
imprisoned. They were ripped from a world where they functioned as
normal human beings. Those individuals who were fortunate enough to
survive that hell, when they were freed, they knew how to live and
function as a human being in a world that saw them as human beings.
Africans who were enslaved, those ripped from Africa, transported to
the New World, they also knew what it meant to be free. Here’s the
kicker, slaves born into the system of slavery, those who never knew
freedom a day in their lives, those who never made an adult decision
about their destinies, about their lives, never had the same luxury as
Jews who were imprisoned in Nazi Germany. Slaves born into they system
never learned to read, write, they never learned how to run a household
on their own, they never learned how to properly raise their children.
Not because they were inherently inferior but because those options were
not available to them because of their skin color.
2. Were Jews robbed of their history and identity? Hmmm, excellent
question. Jews . . . created history. The entire Old Testament
bible is based on their supposed greatness. Jews have the very same
religion they had since, as they claim, God created Earth. Do African
Americans have the religion our ancestors practiced? Not only do we not
know what religion our ancestors practiced, we have been beaten,
brainwashed, and convinced that the religion our ancestors practiced was
heathen. Jews have a language they can call their own. Jews have
songs they can sing that go back millennia. Jews have the same surnames
they have had since the beginning of time. Jews have art, food, and
books that go back thousands of years. Want to know what African
Americans have? We have negro spirituals we learned under the whip of
the white slave master because it was illegal for Blacks to practice
their own traditions or tell our own stories of greatness. It was
illegal for Blacks to even beat a damn drum. What if Jews had bar/bat
mitzvahs taken from them? If there were no Jewish holidays on the
calendar THEN they might be able to claim equality in the Oppression
Olympics.
3. Were Jews dehumanized for their appearance? Well, I’m sure some
racist troll who thinks he can put me in my place is going to suggest
that Jews’ unique hair texture was different and thus it made them
easier to be identified as Jewish, thus, it’s the very same thing as
Blacks who were enslaved because of our beautiful dark, smooth skin, our
gorgeous thick, wooly, hair texture, our beautiful facial features like
our wide noses and our thick lips. We were dehumanized because our
women had bigger asses and our men had bigger dicks. It’s pretty easy
to take off your yarmulke to hide your Jewish identity. It’s not so
easy to take off your skin though. But, I’m sure, racist nudist troll
is going to insist that it doesn’t matter, that those things are
unimportant. Well, let me take your child, brand them with a burning
hot iron, rename them, denigrate them daily for their stringy limp hair,
their thin unkissable lips, their flat asses, their inferior genitalia,
and their pink, pasty, sickly looking skin. Let me do it to their
children for their entire lives. Let me do it to 15 generations of your
offspring and then we can see if there is similar damage done to their
psyches.
Jews and Germans, for the most part, had the same hair, same skin
color, same facial features, same body types. If you put a SS uniform
on a Jew, the overwhelming majority of them would be able to pass as
their oppressor. Here is a fun fact, slaves didn't have that same
luxury. They couldn't pass as their oppressor, pretend to be one of
their slave masters simply by putting on a different outfit.
4. Were Jews taken from their homeland? Ahhhh, here is where Jews
can claim some competition in the Oppression Olympics. Exodus. Jews
were driven from their home at one point in history. Were they
kidnapped? Were they transported to another country thousands of miles
away living in the piss and shit of strangers chained to them? Were
they fed food infested with maggots and rat shit? Hmmmm. Were they
chained to the hull of a ship with no water or fresh air? They walked
for 40 years in the desert, united, together. I’m going to go out on a
limb and say that is not the same thing as being captive on a slave
ship.
There is another difference. Jews were given a little plot of land
called Israel to do with as they pleased, including the systematic
oppression of Palestinians at their discretion and pleasure. I’m going
to also note here, and forgive my repetitiveness, but at no point in
history were Jews robbed of their God, their names, their culture, their
identities. It makes a difference. Want to know how I know? Because
if it didn’t matter, Blacks and Jews would be in the same position
today. If what happened to Jews was as tragic as what happened to
Africans who were enslaved and their descendants then Jews were be in
the same predicament as African Americans today. They aren’t. It’s not
because they are more resilient, not because they were able to rebound
better, not because they aren’t sniveling and whiny and playing the
victim card. It’s because what has happened to them doesn’t compare to
what happened to slaves. IF it was the same, if the impact of the
horrors of American slavery were the exact same as what happened to any
other race of people you would find the same outcome. Jews are not
better at picking themselves up by their bootstraps. Jews are not
better at rebounding from tragedy. Simply stated, what Jews endured in
history does not even compare to what slaves endured.
Here’s where I need to empower the Black readers. If you ever find
yourself in a situation where you have read and understood the context
of what I’m trying to teach you, if you can wrap your head around the
fact that no other race of people have endured what we have, if you
muster up the courage to confront white people with your understandings,
inevitably, you are going to encounter the, “YOU”RE RACIST,” chants
from whites who are going to be offended that you would even suggest
that what Blacks endured was worse than any other crime against
humanity. Here’s what I want you to ask them. First, ask them if every
tragedy was equal, if every crime against humanity was the same, if
there was no difference whatsoever, why is it that Blacks in America
(and in colonized Africa) have suffered greater than any other race and
seem to have such difficulty pulling ourselves up by our collective
bootstraps like other races? Ahhhhh, not an easy question to answer if
you are racist and think there there is something inherently inferior
about Blacks in the first place. The ONLY reason Blacks occupy more
ghettos, we are more disenfranchised, is because we have been
systematically oppressed in ways that far surpass anything that any
other race of people has ever endured.
Next, ask them why they are so offended that a Black person would
suggest that slavery was the worst crime against humanity. You see,
inherent in racism is this notion that if Blacks claim what happened to
us was worse than what happened to other races, we are an arrogant,
uppity nigger. White people have to have to have suffered more. They
have to be the most maligned. They can’t stand to let anyone say that
what happened to Africans who were enslaved and their descendants was
worst than the Irish and the Jews or anyone else in history because we
aren’t human to them. If this were a real competition, and Africans
born in America won the Gold medal for being oppressed, white people
would contest the results, they would fight and scream that they were
the rightful winners. Why? Because they don’t give a damn that
millions of Africans were thrown overboard ships. They don’t care that
white slavers raped women to make a profit from their children. They
don’t care about the horrors we endured because all that matters to them
is trying to silence our voices. They only care about refuting facts
with their distorted lies in order to claim superior status.
One has to wonder what points white people lose, what privilege they
have to give up if they lose the Oppression Olympics. Whatever the cost
to them it must be great because they refuse to acknowledge that the
American slave trade was the greatest crime against humanity ever. The
truly non-racist person would say, “Wow, thank you for opening my eyes
to the horrors of slavery. I think what happened during slavery was
reprehensible and I for one am willing to adjust my thinking to help
eradicate the racism that exists today because of it.” The racist will
read the first paragraph or two and then say that Blacks are whiny, that
what happened to other races was worse, and that we are just making
excuses for our inherently lazy, criminal, dysfunctional behavior. I’m
here to tell you that not one unhealthy behavior exhibited by Blacks in
America today is not the result of our collective enslavement and the
horrors inflicted on us by evil, sadistic white people. Sad, but oh so
true.