Anti-semitism, the 800lb gorilla in the room that nobody seems to want to talk about

[bklyncowgirl]

232. There's no excuse for his using that word.

I'm pretty damn sure that if someone used the "N" word to discuss the proclivities of African-American voters the Reverend Jackson would have blown a gasket. That being said, he did apologize and I don't know of any other anti-Semitic statements or actions on Jackson's part.

At any rate, my point was that to say as some have here that no African-American would ever hold a Jewish person's faith and background against him or her is just plain silly. I lived in New York in the 80s and early 90s. Tensions between the two communities were very high ending in riots in Crown Heights when an Orthodox Rebbe's limo struck an African-American child and the Hasidic ambulance that was first on the scene took the slightly injured Jewish leader to the hospital and left the kid to die in the streets.