This is well said. It’s familiar to what’s been said for a while. But it will take time for the problem of racism to recede.
I do have a concern about #6 and antisemitism.
You choose a poor example. You choose using Holocaust as a weapon at black persons. I would guess that it’s not usually used that way by people who have survivors in their family.
It’s unfair to create a negative image of Jews and Holocaust in your effort to create a positive approach to persons who are African American.
Instead it’s used in a genuinely connecting way. Or as a concern that bigotry at Jews is also a problem and the need to speak up about their own terror at bigotry. Or simply not said in that context at all.
There must be other examples you could have used for “talk back minimizing” of bigotry expressed by black people that didn’t used one of the other really egregious bigotries in the worlds, in a negative way.
There are current problems between the Black and Jewish communities. During civil rights, Jews too wanted equality for both, and fought alongside Blacks, risking their lives too.
Then Nation of Islam and the view of Jews as privileged happened. False information spread, and resentments grew. Now within the black community floats animosity at the Jewish community. Maybe for “passing” and therefore economically achieving. For not understanding that bigotry at Jews is about scapegoating them not about economic oppression. It looks different than bigotry at persons who are black.
And within the Jewish community is still all the attitudes that you wrote about here, so it may be about that too.
A lot of the hate at Jews in the world, now comes cloaked as “views on Israel” that are in truth packets of falsehoods, & scapegoating of Jews. The Black community included. The Nation of Islam aligned the Black community with the North Africa Arabs and Farrakhan spread hate at Jews and Israel.
The problem with bigotry at Jews that Jewish people have is that it will appear suddenly as yet another mass killing. The Holocaust was big, but not unusual in Jewish history. It’s waking up in the hospital post nearly dying to a roommate asking “but you killed Jesus.” (for real, happened to me 5 years ago.) It’s very different than racism, so it can get missed.
Stoking the animosity and pointedly using not “white people” as your example, but another group that gets bigotry, “jewish people” (Holocaust is thought of as Jewish people)… as a way to address bigotry, seems unneeded and harmful to ending bigotries.
I say this sincerely.
Thank you for reading.