Anon for this on – I don’t know any details of the story . . . but b’klal . . . any time one goes after the KKK my first instinct is a hearty yasher koach and hatzlocha

Charliehall – Exactly as the Torah teaches – alas, often honored in the breech

What do you think of the tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center? I just read that they are filing a case against the KKK.

Yonason,

See:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/dvar-torah-from-this-weeks-parsha-on-cham-ben-noach

Sad to say, I think a large portion of the “Black Hat” community, my community – is racist. If you don’t see it, I think you are in denial.

I have had this perception for 30 years, but if I would have had doubts about it, they would have been resolved negatively during the presidential campaign. I have never heard the “N” word used as much as it was used this year in the context of Obama – or schvartze with a sneer.

My father was a Yeche who got out in time to come to the United States pre-war – he was a physician, a front line combat physician, in the Army in the European theater during WWII. He used to tell me stories of antisemetic incidents in the Army – not many, but enough. And he told me of a Black surgeon he knew, a Captain in the Medical Corp who served in Europe with him, who lost the use of his hand due to frostbite after returning to the States – he was traveling home in the winter of 1945 – and was denied rooms by a number of motels because he was a “N” on a frigid December night . .

My father lumped antisemetism and racial prejudice together as parts of the same disease – and it was enough for a man to use the “N” word for my father to write him off as a friend. I was raised to see prejudice as the root of most of the world’s conflicts . . and I have always tried to shtim Yiddishkeit with the lessons my father taught me.

So I ask you all…any of you…what is the mesorah that permits racial prejudice?

you need to get off your high horse, and actually read some of things you post. while they are quite entertaining (my co-workers and i get a good laugh), they are so far off from the actual Frum Normal Jewish Americans thoughts.

coming from a frum background, living in a large frum community, and knowing many many frum people, no one i know is a negative and cynical as you with regard to the Frum World at large.