On Jewish Racism

The hottest item in my inbox, is this Max Blumenthal video of some drunken Jewish kids spewing venom at Obama. I think I'm supposed to be outraged by the footage, presumably because Jewish kids don't get to be racist.

For what it's worth, on a very visceral level, what I see is a bunch of drunk racist white kids, doing what I'd expect a bunch of drunk racist white kids to do. I don't really have "higher expectations" because of the particulars of the Jewish experience, anymore than I have "higher expectations" for  Irish-Americans due to the oppresive immigrant experience of their ancestors. Nor, when it comes to, say, homophobia or nativism, do I have "higher expectations" for blacks because of segregation and Jim Crow. (Though I do have higher hopes, mostly because I'm black and I want us to represent.)

Oppression corrupts, just as often as it ennobles. Perhaps more often.

I understand that a lot of Jewish cats, have a special inside/outside relationship with whiteness, and so maybe this is unduly harsh. But the black perspective, is pretty much the Chris Rock perspective--white ethnicity just hasn't meant much to us outside of the Northeast.

But the greater point about this style of "journalism," is made by this headline which I came across--"Drunk Americans=Israeli Public Opinion." Man listen, hand me a fifth of Henny, a video camera, and an hour, and I'll show you Negroes claiming that God's messenger lives in a space-ship orbiting the earth.

The Henny is for me. The Negroes can be found, sober, saying anything. As can all people. That's the point. Bigotry is human. Why would the blacks and Jews be any different?