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Re: The "Reprehensibles"
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Saturday, December 26 2015, 18:42:35 (UTC)
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One of the German claims against Jews was that they were allegedly committing "economic terror", in addition to "perverting" the image of the German Fatherland. Ishmael Reed, the Oakland-based Afro-American writer and musician, in this excerpt from an interview he did a few years back makes an interesting point about demonizing the "other".

From Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/03/15/faking-the-hood/

REED: When I was researching my novel Reckless Eyeballing, I attended a lecture sponsored by the San Francisco Holocaust Museum, March 26,1984. The program said that the stereotypes about Jewish men in the Nazi media was similar to that about Black men in the United States. I thought, what on earth are they talking about? And then I went out and examined some of this junk, especially the cartoons in the newspaper Der Sturmer – see Julius Streicher Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semite Newspaper Der Sturmer by Randall l. Bytwerk. I was shocked. Jewish men were depicted as sexual predators, raping Aryan women. They were exhibited as flashers. Both [SauL] Bellow and Phillip Roth’s books include Black flashers. Jewish men especially those immigrants from Russia were depicted as criminals. Jewish children were seen as disruptive, a threat to German school children and so on.

If any one looks at this stuff for example, you’ll find a perfect match for the way that David Mamet, David Simon, George Pelecanos, Stephen Spielberg and Richard Price portray Blacks. They are very critical in their projects about the way Black men treat women, yet none of them has produced a project critical of the way that men of their background treat women.


-- Further down the page, Ishamel Reed talks about how this new generation of white Jewish writers and filmmakers have forgotten their own history. His beef is with white dudes, some of them Jewish like David Simon, the creator of HBO's "The Wire", who use black Ghetto stereotypes as a "goldmine" to which they stake their claim and from which they have made millions of dollars. Reed is one of the few Black voices who sharply and correctly criticizes white writers and fimmakers, Jews or non-Jews, like Quentin Tarrantino, for portraying Blacks in a one-dimensional, racist manner. I highly recommend reading the entire interview, and also part 1 of the interview which you can link to from the Counterpunch page: http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/03/15/faking-the-hood/


ALI: You know, you’ll get a lot of heat for this, right?

REED: Well, you know, this is something that should be brought up: why are they promoting the same images of us that were promoted against minorities in Nazi Germany and set them up for the camps?

ALI: You think there’s no self-reflection there?

REED: They don’t know their history. They’re a generation that doesn’t know their own history. I’m sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of Simon’s projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history. They were red baited, Black balled and lost their jobs. They helped to create a safety net that helped millions. They supported the drive for the emancipation of Black people. They were lawyers who went South risking their lives to defend Blacks who were victims of Jim Crow justice. They were among the first to publish great Black writers. They were writers who were Black balled in Hollywood. The Rosenbergs were executed by the government. This generation of Jews would be ashamed of people like Simon and Price. They would turn over in their graves and be disgusted at these people who are cheapening people who can’t fight back, who can’t tell their story, for money.

ALI: What are some of the other stereotypes of Jewish men in the Nazi press?

REED: It was all about Jewish men [accosting German women]: that was the favorite theme of the Nazi newspaper. That the only reason Jewish guys went to the medical profession was so they could be gynecologists to examine German women. Der Sturmer printed cartoons of Jewish men lunging at half naked German women while grinning, lecherously.

ALI: What about Henry Gates’s charge that Blacks are the last of the anti Semites?

REED: They have a funny way of showing it. When Joesph Lieberman ran for
President, he was the first choice among African American voters, and when Sharpton entered the race, Lieberman was the second choice So, a comet must’ve passed the Earth and all the Blacks suddenly changed their minds! The Times promised to follow Gate’s op-ed with one about the racist attitudes of some Jews against Black people; it never appeared. If one ever appeared I’d suggest that it challenge some scriptwriters, novelists, producers and directors who are peddling Der Sturmer type portraits of Black people. I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."



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