96% of African Americans polled don't agree that Trump has gone too far over plan to ban Muslims?

[MosheFeingold]

62. 9.6% unemployment doesn't help

I agree there are many issues going on, but I'm a 91 year old Jewish guy. I served in WWII.

Back in the 1930s, the thugs of the Bronx had a Yiddish accent. We were the underclass and feared.

Not sure why people don't remember this, and there was some "good" reason for the fear -- we were dirt poor, "different," and yes, we did all sorts of crime and were locked out of a lot of jobs.

Restaurants, stores, apartments, etc, had "no Jews" policies.

And we weren't helping things. I was well on my way to being a career criminal prior to WWII, and guilty of several bad things, from burglary to robbery. I ran with a gang that did terrible things that they now make gangster movies about and glorify. (After the war, where I was made a MP because I dealt with Germans being a native German speaker, I oddly became a cop before going to college and later law school.)

Anyway, over the course of the almost century in which I have lived, we Yids (that used to be the equivalent of various nasty words for blacks, also largely in the dustbin) somehow became tolerable.

I still talk funny, look a bit odd, and have funny practices. I'm part of the "other."

Yes, I still face routine discrimination. In any big city, I will get cat calls ("Jooooo...&quot , hard shoulders, and funny looks. As I related in another post, not very long ago, I was filling up my rental car in Hobby Airport when a kid leaned out of his car window and chunked a red slurpee all over me with the call "f---g Jooooooooo."

That kind of stuff never goes away. Some people are just assholes. Undoubtedly you get your share, probably more.

But it does fade away to the fringes.

Somehow Jewish people as a group ceased to be underclass, including me. I directly reported to a President of the USA, for example.

What happened is WWII. Immigration was shut down, workers (and soldiers) were needed (even us Yids), and we moved up the monetary (if not exactly polite society) ladder, and things got much, much better.

The same opportunity needs to be made available for blacks.

I believe certain elements of our political class, motivated by the cynical desire for money are intentionally keeping this opportunity from blacks because they want cheap labor. It's slavery under a different name.