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ADL Discriminates Among Jews Based on Race: 'Jews of Color' Awards Announced

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Wednesday that it had awarded fellowships of up to $25,000 each to “Jews of Color,” though the Jewish faith recognizes no distinctions of color whatsoever.

The ADL, which was once widely respected as a non-partisan civil rights organization fighting anti-Jewish prejudice and supporting the broader civil rights movement, has moved to the left under the leadership of former Obama administration official Jonathan Greenblatt.

“Jews of Color are, unfortunately, often subjected to the dual evils of racism and antisemitism,” Greenblatt said in an official statement on Wednesday. “Through the Collaborative for Change fellowship, we’re proud to provide an opportunity for Jews of Color to share their experiences and increase understanding of the unique challenges they face.”

Though many American Jews are of European origin, Jews come in a variety of “colors,” and include populations from the Middle East and Africa.

There is no theological recognition of race or color, and skin color is barely mentioned in the Bible. The few mentions are generally considered positive: “I am black but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem!” (Song of Solomon / Song of Songs 1:5).

Critics warned that the ADL was playing into a racially essentialist narrative that could hurt the fight against antisemitism:

The ADL’s “Jews of Color” controversy comes a day after another controversy over previous statements by Tema Smith, the ADL’s Director of Jewish Outreach & Partnerships, who claimed that Jewish concerns about black antisemitism were racist:

While it is likely true that there are more white perpetrators of antisemitic attacks than black, some recent attacks have taken place in neighborhoods where religious Jews live near black communities, and where there is a history of mutual tension.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

Alveda King Accuses President Joe Biden of ‘Race Baiting’

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Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, said this weekend President Joe Biden is stoking racial tensions by opposing voter ID laws.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Biden warned of “a true attack on our democracy, from the Jan. 6 insurrection to the onslaught of Republican anti-voting laws in a number of states,” referring to state laws requiring voter ID or barring mass mailing of absentee ballots.

“It’s no longer just about who gets to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote. And whether your vote counts at all. It’s about two insidious things: voter suppression and election subversion,” Biden said.

Biden also evoked the memory of Rev. King in his push for the removal of restrictions on voting.

“It’s not just enough to praise him, we must commit to his unfinished work to deliver jobs and justice, to protect the sacred right to vote, the right from which all other rights flow,” Biden said of King.

King’s niece said Saturday, however, that Biden’s anti-voter ID rhetoric is fueling rather than quelling racial tensions.

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as Alveda King (C), a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks before Trump signs the First Step Act and the Juvenile Justice Reform Act at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 21, 2018. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Voter ID is necessary “because we tell somebody they don’t need an ID, they don’t count,” Alveda King told the John Solomon Reports podcast. “They may as well just mark an ‘X’ on a ballot. So we need the ID and sensible voting.”

What “Biden is doing [is] stirring the race card, race baiting, playing the race card, trying to stir up emotion,” King added.

During a January 11 speech on voting rights in Georgia, Biden also referenced Martin Luther King, asking his hearers whether they are on his side.

“Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?  Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?  Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?” he asked.

When campaigning for the presidency in June 2020, Joe Biden claimed that Martin Luther King Jr.’s death did not make as much of an impact as the death of George Floyd.

“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said during an event on June 11, 2020.

Black Mississippi Democrats Walk Out of Senate over Bill to Prohibit Teaching Children Any Race Is Superior or Inferior

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All 14 black Democrat senators walked out of the Mississippi Senate Chamber on Friday in protest before a vote on a bill that prohibits teaching children any race is superior or inferior to another.

Senate Bill 2113 passed by a margin of 32-2 after the walk out of the black caucus, which Daily Mail reports was entirely comprised of Democrats. The two senators who voted against the legislation were David Blount and Hob Bryan – both of whom are white Democrats, according to WLBT. The bill will now make its way to the state’s House.

The proposed legislation states in part:

(1) No public institution of higher learning, community/junior college, school district or public school, including public charter schools, shall direct or otherwise compel students to personally affirm, adopt or adhere to any of the following tenants:

(a) That any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior; or

(b) That individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.

Prior to the walkout, Senate Minority Leader Derrick Simmons (D) questioned Sen. Michael McLendon (R), who introduced the bill. McLendon submitted he had not heard of an instance where Critical Race Theory was being taught in Mississippi but noted a large number of his constituents expressed concerns “over the teachings that they have heard from around the country.” 

“Well, we try to make laws for the future as well as today,” McLendon said towards the beginning of the exchange. 

Simmons questioned McLendon about what the bill would mean for teachings of race and racism in schools going forward should it be signed into law.

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“All this bill does is say that no child is superior or inferior to another, that is all it does.” – Senator Michael McLendon. (Senator Derrick Simmons is the one questioning Sen. McLendon on CRT bill on Senate floor)

Posted by SuperTalk Mississippi on Friday, January 21, 2022

A transcript of the exchange reads in part: 

Simmons: Should we teach race and racism in our schools accurately?

McLendon: I believe we’re doing that and this bill is not changing anything about our past. All this bill says – no child should be told that they’re superior or inferior to another. That’s all this bill does.

Simmons: So all the history in the state of Mississippi all the way up to the changing of the state flag – all of that can still be taught in our schools with the passage of this bill?

McLendon: Yes sir.

Simmons: And how we got to the point we got to in 2020 when we changed the flag – we can also teach the true history about that in our schools if this bill becomes law?

McLendon: That is my intent, yes sir. All this bill does is no child is superior or inferior to another and we should not teach that – that someone is.

Simmons: The horrific thing that happened to Mamie Till’s son – can we teach that in our schools with the passage of this bill?

McLendon: Absolutely, I watched the movie last night as a matter of fact.

Later in the session, Simmons requested a roll call before leading a walkout of black senators, according to WLBT.

“We felt like it was a bill that was not deserving of our vote,” said  Simmons, according to Mississippi Today. “We have so many issues in the state that need to be addressed. We did not need to spend time on this.

“We walked out as a means to show a visible protest to these proceedings,” said Democrat Sen. John Horhn. 

Simmons released a statement that reads in part:

Senate Democrats have always led the charge on teacher pay raises and have championed establishment of fair career plans that show our appreciation for the job our teachers do. However, the roll call vote today to pass Senate Bill 2444 – our teacher pay plan – was quickly called up and passed without discussion immediately after members of our caucus walked out in protest of a vague bill that would ban “critical race theory” in Mississippi’s public schools and universities without creating boundaries. We felt it was unfair to have such a bill introduced or passed as it really demeans a large segment of our population. Though our votes were not counted because of the chain of events, Senate Democrats stand in support of raises for our educators.

“I’m trying to find the mischief in this bill and I don’t see it,” said Republican Sen. Chris McDaniel. 

“He argued that if the bill was introduced in the 1950s, it would have been the ‘most dynamic piece of civil rights legislation in this state’s history,’” WLBT reports. 

Memory Holed: Woke BBC Quietly Censoring Classic Comedy Programmes

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Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC, has been quietly censoring radio rebroadcasts of classic comedy shows, memory-holing jokes deemed too politically incorrect for modern audiences.

A number of skits from classic comedy shows have been memory-holed entirely by the BBC, with the UK’s national broadcaster quietly editing re-broadcasts of old programming to remove supposedly offensive elements of the shows.

The broadcaster has previously come under fire for censoring classic televisions shows, being called “cowardly and gutless” as a result.

According to a report by The Times, however, the state-broadcaster has also been stripping out segments deemed racist, misogynistic, or otherwise unacceptable in the modern age from re-aired versions of old radio versions of shows.

Shows such as Dad’s Army, Steptoe and Son and I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again have been hit by censorship according to the publication, with some sketches being stripped from rebroadcasted programmes entirely.

Frequent targets of censorship are jokes revolving around sexuality, gender relations and race, with mentions of now-disgraced stars, such as Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris, also often ending up on the cutting room floor.

For example, in one 1971 episode of Steptoe and Son, the word “poofy” was cut from a rebroadcast, with other offensive terms being stripped from Dad’s Army and Lines From My Grandfather’s Forehead episodes.

Meanwhile, a 1970 episode of I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again had an entire sketch cut that involved a gag about scantily dressed women seen on Top of the Pops.

“We have noticed that it is possible to see right up to the girls’ knickers, owing to the shortness of their miniskirts, so we’ve asked the girls to drop them,” legendary actor John Cleese said while parodying a spokesman for the BBC during the bit.

On the cuts, The Times reports a spokesman from the BBC as saying that edits to shows are made so that they are “suitable for broadcast”.

“Listeners enjoy a huge number of old comedies from the archives on 4 Extra and on occasion, we edit some episodes so they’re suitable for broadcast today, including removing racially offensive language and stereotypes from decades ago, as the vast majority of our audience would expect,” the spokesman said.

The BBC has been caught memory-holing old jokes before, with Cleese himself slamming the “cowardly and gutless” broadcaster for removing an entire episode of Fawlty Towers over the presence of a racial slur.

“The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats,” Cleese said. “It used to have a large sprinkling of people who’d actually made programmes. Not any more.”

“So BBC decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs… That’s why they’re so cowardly and gutless and contemptible,” he continued.

However, the future of the woke broadcaster is now under serious threat thanks to a government proposal to scrap the BBC’s licence fee tax by 2028.

The move comes as the British government roll out “Operation Red Meat“, a bid seemingly to save Boris Johnson’s premiership after the Conservative leader has been plagued with calls to resign as a result of “partygate“.

Seemingly one of the government’s “red meat” policies, the future change has prompted much gnashing of teeth within the state broadcaster, though the UK’s Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, has said that the BBC should be able to adapt like any other business.

“The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over,” Dorries said regarding the measure.

“Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content,” she continued.

Treasury secretary claims economy has 'never worked fairly' for black Americans; experts say inflation hits them hardest

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claimed Monday the United States economy has “never worked fairly” for black Americans and people of color.

And now economic experts are saying high inflation and other economic woes attributed to President Joe Biden’s policies are disproportionately impacting the same people Yellen invoked.

What did Yellen say?

Speaking at an event hosted by the National Action Network, an organization founded by Al Sharpton, Yellen claimed the American economy works fairly only for white people.

“From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow, to the present day, our economy has never worked fairly for Black Americans — or, really, for any American of color,” she said.

Yellen then claimed the Biden administration has worked to correct systemic economic injustices but cited only an “equity review,” “diverse leadership,” and Biden’s COVID bill, the American Rescue Plan, and a $9 billion investment into community development financial institutions and minority depository institutions.

“Since taking office last January, our administration has tried to change that, to ensure that neither the figurative bank of justice – nor any literal economic institution – fails to work for people of color,” Yellen said.

“It has been a year of action, especially at the Treasury Department.,” she continued. “We’ve completed Treasury’s first equity review, looking across the Department and asking: Where are our operations not as inclusive as they should be? We’ve brought on the most diverse leadership team in Treasury’s history and hired the Department’s first ever counselor on racial equity. And then there’s Treasury’s pandemic response. We knew that the communities hurt most by COVID were often communities of color, and so as we began implementing relief bills like the American Rescue Plan, we did so with equity in mind.”

But what is happening under Biden?

Inflation has been surging under Biden and reached a whopping 7% in December, the highest rate in 40 years. Experts blame, at least partially, the American Rescue Plan for rising inflation.

Unfortunately, experts also say inflation hardest hits those Americans Yellen claimed receive an unfair shake in the U.S. economy.

Business Insider reported in November:

Inflation has hurt lower-income families, families of color, and rural households more than other demographics, a Bank of America research report found last week. Breaking down demographics by race, geography, and income, the bank found that the “inflation shock” of 2021 has disproportionately affected the marginalized: Households without college graduates, African American, Hispanic and Latino communities, and those not living in cities have been spending more of their post-tax income on goods and services.

Inflation hits Americans lower on the socio-economic ladder because they possess less wealth. Those who have less wealth and tighter budgets immediately feel the impacts of inflation, which decreases the purchasing power of every dollar. Wealthier Americans, however, are generally less impacted by inflation because they have more budgetary margin.

Meanwhile, unemployment among black Americans rose to 7.1% last month, more than double the figure for white Americans. It does not appear, at least right now, that Biden’s economy is working for black Americans.