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In the 1980s, there was a labor dispute between the New York Yankees baseball players and Mr. George Steinbrenner, who owned the New York Yankees baseball team, at that time.
Mr. Reggie Jackson, who was an African American member of the New York Yankees baseball team, made this public complaint, which was reported by the news media. He said:
“BLACKS DO ALL THE WORK, AND JEWS JUST OWN EVERYTHING.”
I am absolutely certain that those were his exact words.Mr. Reggie Jackson never apologized for that remark, and he never needed to,
because even in the 1980s, African Americans were given free-passes for anti-Jewish remarks.Mr. George Steinbrenner was NOT Jewish and did NOT have any Jewish ancestors.
Jackson was criticized multiple times in the 70s and 80s for using Jewish stereotypes and memes. At the same time, in 1978 he also accused Billy Martin, Yankee manager, of making anti-Semitic jokes about Yankees pitcher Ken Holtzman, who was Jewish. Jackson himself grew up with many Jewish friends who repeatedly came to his defense as being grossly politically incorrect in his jokes about other Blacks, Hispanics and Jews but not really someone who was antisemitic.
AA’s were not given a free pass in the 80’s, it was a different time & PC hadn’t fully kicked in.
While you did you research most do not especially in the 80’s. It’s certainly reasonable for a Non-Jew (moreso an AA) to assume a wealthy team owner with 2 very “Jewy” names like “Stein” & “Brenner” is Jewish.
As a frame of reference that it was not only AAs who could get away with this stuff in the 80’s too. The White morning DJ in the Baltimore-Washington area in 1986 when MLK Jr Day became a federal holiday said, “If one Black guy getting killed gets us a day off work we should kill 4 more & take the whole week off.”
His punishment? An apology & 5 day suspension. If he said that today millions would be calling for his execution.. But in the 80’s not so much.Jesse Jackson and hymietown. Al Sharpton and the diamond merchants. And these were from the milder examples. The list goes on and on and on.
Sadly Black antisemitism has a very rich history, first of all Reggie was just an overpaid athlete so who cares what he said, you want to talk 80s? how about Sharpton, Maddox and company and Crown Heights riots?, how about Freddys? how about Jesse J? and things got worse from there, I am hard pressed to remember last time a black public figure said something positive about the Jews
Dorah,
You are going with “Some of my best friends are Jewish” defense for Mr. Hymietown? Jesse Jackson is a bigot. No different than Al Sharpton. Who are championed by the democrats because they are the “right type” of bigots.
Common, you’re right about black voices in general, but there are some, like Ritchie Torres, who are very pro Jewish(or at least pro Israel)
Conservative Black leaders (Thomas sowell, Clarence Thomas, others) also are not known to be Antisemitic
The most violent antisemitism in America comes from the black community, very disproportionately.
Ujm, before Oct 7, it was almost all from black people and a few muslims here and there, plus the one-off mass shooting from a white supremacist. But now, there have been assaults from various types of young people who are anti israel and lump all of us together; it’s not as disproportionate as before, but the everyday incidents from black people in crown heights and Williamsburg has increased too.
January 6th was so much worse than this
Do any of the posters have citations for the “facts” referenced in their posts? Memories from 30+ years ago
can be inaccurate.@huju,
1. Fact: Yankel Rosenbaum was chased down and stabbed by a black mob yelling kill the Jew.
2. Fact: Al Sharpton Yemach shemon instigated the mob
3. Fact: Freddy’s a Jewish owned clothing store was burnt own by a black mob.
4. Fact: Jesse J called NY HymietownWant more facts? download the Govenor’s report a 616 page document.
PS you are a poster child that liberalism is a mental disorder.
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