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@som1 your initial premise is incredibly flawed and I hope that you are able to see the errors in your way of generalizing. You also use a few tropes that are commonly used by anti Semites. Replace the words Democrats with Jews. That is literally what my Dad went up against in the 1970s as he and other Jewish students fought to overturn the quota of Jews admitted into his universities medical school.
It would be more helpful of removing the lenses of “us vs. them” “democrats vs. republicans” and look at this from a neutral viewpoint.
I hope that we can agree that there are both discriminatory laws and unfair enforcement of the same laws.
Generally the people who are in power tend to write laws to keep themselves in power. This can be seen all the time when voting districts are created. Additionally, in certain areas, there have been laws that are designed to suppress the votes from low income and also formerly incarcerated individuals. In those same areas the low income and formerly incarcerated populations tend to be minorities. Now when the laws are enforced at a higher rate per capita than other people, that is a biassed system.
It goes beyond just law enforcement. The media is more likely to devote more time covering crimes against white victims as opposed to minorities. When the criminal is being discussed, if you pay attention to the details, white criminals are generally described more positively when compared to coverage of criminals who are minorities.
One of the main points the BLM protesters are making is that:<i> African American’s have been unfairly judged based on their skin tone for generations. Treat African American individuals with the same amount of respect that you would afford any other person. Take an inward look and try to put yourselves in their shoes before you judge them.</i> As Jews this should be easy for us to do. We have also been discriminated against and unfair laws were also made against us as recently as 2020. Each person, including non Jews is created Btzelem Elokim, we should judge other based on their individual worth and we should be able to empathize with them.
By effectively closing your mind and saying that the Democrats are hypocrites you are not helping the issue. Expand your knowledge and be willing to open your mind to the idea that others may have a point even if you do not generally agree with them. If you don’t want to do this, at least reconsider your statement, because it is often falsely made about Jews controlling everything and we all know how that generally holds up.