<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'd like to find an American who can demonstrate that he has no African American ancestors.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5:48 PM Barry MacKichan <<a href="mailto:barry.mackichan@mackichan.com">barry.mackichan@mackichan.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The author Isabel Wilkerson wrote two books which I’ve read in the <br>
last year or two. The second one was “Caste, The Origins of our <br>
Discontents.” In it, she looks at castes in three countries: India, <br>
the US, and Germany. She notes the extent to which the Nazis, once they <br>
had control of the government and needed to write laws supporting their <br>
scourges, followed the template of the American south. At one point, on <br>
the matter of who was to be considered a Jew, they looked at the <br>
American definition of a negro as one having “a single African <br>
American anywhere in your family tree”. For the Nazis that was a <br>
bridge too far, so they stopped looking past the grandparents. The <br>
American criterion was more than they thought they could sell to the <br>
German people.<br>
<br>
The other book she wrote, “The Warmth of Other Suns” is a history of <br>
the Great Migration, the flight of six million from the south to the <br>
north in the US, was a real eye-opener for me. I had never understood <br>
how brutal Jim Crow was.<br>
<br>
--Barry<br>
<br>
On 16 Oct 2021, at 11:01, Jon Zingale wrote:<br>
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> Eventually, the video discusses eugenics, which of course, the United <br>
> States helped spearhead:<br>
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