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[Frank Wimberly]

If your mother is or was a Jew you're a Jew according to Jewish laws or
traditions. Unfortunately my Southern Baptist grandfather broke the chain
from his grandmother to me.

I'd like to find an American who can demonstrate that he has no African
American ancestors.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:48 PM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
wrote:

> The author Isabel Wilkerson wrote two books which I’ve read in the
> last year or two. The second one was “Caste, The Origins of our
> Discontents.” In it, she looks at castes in three countries: India,
> the US, and Germany. She notes the extent to which the Nazis, once they
> had control of the government and needed to write laws supporting their
> scourges, followed the template of the American south. At one point, on
> the matter of who was to be considered a Jew, they looked at the
> American definition of a negro as one having “a single African
> American anywhere in your family tree”. For the Nazis that was a
> bridge too far, so they stopped looking past the grandparents. The
> American criterion was more than they thought they could sell to the
> German people.
>
> The other book she wrote, “The Warmth of Other Suns” is a history of
> the Great Migration, the flight of six million from the south to the
> north in the US, was a real eye-opener for me. I had never understood
> how brutal Jim Crow was.
>
> --Barry
>
> On 16 Oct 2021, at 11:01, Jon Zingale wrote:
>
> > Eventually, the video discusses eugenics, which of course, the United
> > States helped spearhead:
>
>
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