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Race Relations + Religion
African Americans, Hypocrisy, & The Cancel Culture of Black Antisemitism
The urgency to perpetuate racialism in the Black community runs deep; —but the pretense of it all runs deeper.
The concept of antisemitism refers to targeted hostility, discrimination, or prejudice against Jewish people or the ethnoreligious practices and beliefs of Judaism. Any person who holds such views is considered antisemitic.
Historically, antisemitism has been manifested in several ways, from verbal expressions of hatred and discrimination against Jews to physical attacks by anti-Jew mobs and police forces, to ultimately even genocide.
The recent rise in Black antisemitism reflects a long-argued claim that antisemitism is the most prevalent in the Black community. In 1967, African American writer, James Baldwin contended that perhaps African Americans are anti-Semitic due to the fact that we’re ‘anti-white.’
“The root of anti-Semitism among Negroes is, ironically, the relationship of colored peoples. One does not wish, in short, to be told by an American Jew that his suffering is as great as the American Negro’s suffering. It isn’t, and one knows that it isn’t from the very tone in which he assures…
