Second I'll be chatting it up on Wednesday with a some very distinguished folks about the state of Black/Jewish relations. Personally, I think it all goes back to an anecdote in Nicholas Lehmann's book The Promised Land. Lehmann talks about how during the Civil Rights Movement, SNCC had a lot of Jewish cats in its ranks doing great work down South. Of course spending so much time around each other inevitably led to relationships, a lot of which apparently were Jewish women and black dudes. This pissed off a lot of the sisters in the organization, and a few years later SNCC rebranded itself as radically black nationalist and told all the whites--many of whom were Jewish--to take a hike.
So you see, like so much of what's wrong in America, the black/Jewish schism is really the fault of black women. Anyway, if you think that theory is particularly brilliant come out on Wednesday. I guarantee that I'll be armed with other such penetrating insights. Seriously though, come out if you can. It should be really engaging.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/05/yo-new-york-ta-nehisi-live/5149/
