Blacks and Jews have been involved in a
re-evaluation of their current and historical relationship. Events
of the past several months have raised both tensions and the level
of rhetoric coming from all sides. The
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews is a historical
accounting of the part of the relationship that has been ignored
by both Blacks and Jews. Most people are not even aware of the
extensive record of encounters between the two groups prior to
the 20th century. The Honorable Louis
Farrakhan referred to this well-documented history in 1984
and was immediately labeled an "anti-Semite." Merely
questioning the belief that Jews were co-sufferers in the Black
slave experience draws angry rebukes from Jews of all stripes.
The book in question presents indisputable historical data from
census records, wills, Jewish historians and scholars, rabbinical
sermons, port records, court records, runaway slave notices, slave
sale advertisements, etc., which forces all sides to grapple with
the long-held mythology that Black people always found a friend
in the Jews.
Some Jews and their dutiful negros have hired the services of
Dr. Harold Brackman
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in an effort to preserve
the comfortable mythology which has obscured the actual historical
record. But unbeknownst to them, Dr. Brackman's 1977 unpublished
Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The Ebb and Flow of Conflict,
goes far beyond The Secret Relationship in its claims of
Jewish conspiracy in the Biblical origin of White supremacy. He
clearly states that Jewish Talmudic scholars invented the Hamitic
Myth which, through the story of Noah, everlastingly assigned
to the African the role of slave and divinely cursed servant of
White people. According to Dr.
Tony Martin's book, The Jewish Onslaught, the Jewish invention of the Hamitic Myth "provided
the moral pretext upon which the entire trade grew and flourished."
"There is no denying," said Brackman of the story of
Noah, "that the Babylonian Talmud was the first source
to read a Negrophobic content into the episode..." Brackman
pointed out further that two third century Jewish "Sages"
provided homosexual embellishments for the Biblical story as well.
This "curse" was the absolute basis for the Europeans'
choice of dark-skinned Africans for chattel slavery. Many denominations
of Christianity, Islam and Judaism believe it and teach it to
this very moment! Southern plantation owners attacked the Abolitionists
with it; its teaching was the foundation of the slaves' permitted
religion; Black inferiority is based on it; the Ku Klux Klan relies
on it; even the Mormons officially taught it until 1978. When
the Jews invented it and promoted it to the world they sentenced
the Black Race to a holocaust the likes of which no people have
ever suffered. "Hate teaching" will forever be defined
by this wicked belief system brought to us in the Jewish Holy
Talmud via Harold Brackman.
The critics curiously use a Harvard English teacher, Henry
Louis Gates, to offer historical clarity. Gates exhibits
no evidence that he even read the book in his oft-quoted NY
Times opinion. His willingness to make asinine historical
claims with the glaring absence of support from reputable Black
or Jewish historians proves Adam Clayton Powell's axiom:
"Harvard has ruined more negroes than bad whiskey."
Overwhelming Evidence
The history that the old "Black-Jewish Coalition" clumsily
avoids is the entire three century history of Jewish presence
in South America and the Caribbean. But other highly acclaimed
Jewish scholars have not been so blind:
"Besides their important position in the sugar industry and
in tax farming, they dominated the slave trade. From 1636 to 1645
a total of 23,163 Negro slaves arrived from Africa and were sold
for 6,714,423 florins. The West India Company, which monopolized
imports of slaves from Africa, sold slaves at public auctions
against cash payment. It happened that cash was mostly in the
hands of Jews. The buyers who appeared at the auctions were almost
always Jews, and because of this lack of competitors they could
buy slaves at low prices. On the other hand, there also was no
competition in the selling of the slaves to the plantation owners
and other buyers, and most of them purchased on credit payable
at the next harvest in sugar. Profits up to 300 percent of the
purchase value were often realized with high interest rates....If
it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a Jewish
holiday the auction had to be postponed. This occurred on Friday,
October 21, 1644."
Given the concise statements in the Jewish historical record,
of which the "Black/Jewish Coalition" is totally ignorant,
how can it be taken seriously in the present debate? (For even
more evidence see the Facts and
Quotes Section)
Jews and Slavery in the Old South
The Jewish critics prefer to focus on the history of slavery in
America while ignoring our kidnapped African family in other parts
of the Western Hemisphere. This attempt to focus the debate is
designed to limit our historical inquiry and to suggest that we
Blacks are to care only about our Black family within America's
political boundaries. This view also conveniently limits the consideration
of evidence of direct Jewish involvement as whip-wielders in the
slave trade which is so abundant in the southern part of the Western
Hemisphere. By the time of the Jewish migration into what is now
the United States, Jews were less involved in the direct trade
but remained significant beneficiaries by their involvement in
the plantation economy.
Jews in the South were of the merchant class, according to a Jewish
historian, having developed "a separate and distinctive accommodation
to the plantation economy." The Southern planters depended
upon these merchants to move their produce to market as well as
for a source of supplies and financing. Jews had become commission
merchants, brokers, auctioneers, cotton wholesalers, slave clothing
dealers, and peddlers, keeping the slave economy oiled with money,
markets and supplies.
It is no mystery why the Jews were absent from representation
in the ranks of the Abolitionists. The American and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society in their report of 1853 expressed their
frustration at the lack of Jews:
"The Jews of the United States have never taken any steps
whatever with regard to the slavery question. As citizens, they
deem it their policy to have every one choose which ever side
he may deem best to promote his own interests and the welfare
of his country. They have no organization of an ecclesiastical
body to represent their general views; no General Assembly, or
its equivalent. The American Jews have two newspapers, but they
do not interfere in any discussion which is not material to their
religion. It cannot be said that the Jews have formed any denominational
opinion on the subject of American slavery....The objects of so
much mean prejudice and unrighteous oppression as the Jews have
been for ages, surely they, it would seem, more than any other
denomination, ought to be the enemies of caste, and friends of
universal freedom."
One study by Ira Rosenwaike published by the American
Jewish Historical Society has shown that 75% of the Jews of
the South owned Black slaves while 36% of the White population
owned slaves.
Ask the Jewish critics to name one (just one) prominent Colonial
American Jew who did not own slaves. He will have the same
difficulty as the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith
had in their 1976 pamphlet entitled, American Jews: Their Story. The ADL lists 13 pioneers of the American Jewish
community - 10 of whom have been definitively linked to the slave
trade. Some Jewish scholars of today, such as Jacob
Rader Marcus, chart the wealth and prestige of their ancestors
by the number of Black slaves they possessed. The point that the
"Coalition" eludes is the utter failure of Judaism to
control this oppressive impulse on the part of these Jews. As
Rabbi Bertram Korn, the foremost scholar of nineteenth
century Jewish history, has written: "It would seem to be
realistic to conclude that any Jew who could afford to own slaves
and had need for their services would do so....Jews participated
in every aspect and process of the exploitation of the defenseless
blacks."
When Rabbi David Einhorn of Civil War era Baltimore, a
true Jewish friend of Black people stood up for the humanity of
the Black Man using the holy principles of Judaism from the Torah,
his words were brilliant:
"America of the future will not rest on slave chains or belittling
its adopted citizens. It will also give up its disinterestedness
in the fate of other peoples of the world....[T]he next battles
will leave a real blood bath, but slavery will be drowned in that
bath."
Alas, his own congregation physically expelled him from his position
as rabbi and ultimately from the city. They opted, as most Jews
did, to accept the "Judaism" of the most prominent rabbi
of the time Morris J. Raphall:
"[I]t remains a fact which cannot be gainsaid that in his
own native home, and generally throughout the world, the unfortunate
negro is indeed the meanest of slaves. Much had been said respecting
the inferiority of his intellectual powers, and that no man of
his race has ever inscribed his name on the Parthenon of human
excellence, either mental or moral."
The historical record is formidable and well-represented in The
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One. Within
334 pages there are 1,275 footnotes containing multiple references
for the reader to examine. The irrefutable record of Jewish historical
compliance with Black oppression is no longer a "secret."
The debate has surely changed.
The Washington Post has confirmed the accuracy of The
Secret Relationship while exposing the ignorance of its media
critics. University of Chicago African Studies professor and Jew
Ralph A. Austen has written in Tikkun Magazine that
the "substantive content...seems fairly accurate." Furthermore
he says, "The authors of The Secret Relationship underestimate
the structural importance of the Jews in the early stages of the
New World slave trade." The Jewish Community, negro followers,
Harold Brackman and Henry Louis Gates might do well to investigate
that amazing assertion of this Jewish historian.
Jewish Racism
But what of the continuing Jewish racism that elicits no Jewish
response at all. No letters warning of some ominous trend. The
African United Front of Los
Angeles raised many of these issues in a recent Final Call
article:
·Michael Levin of City College of New York, Vincent Sarvich
of the University of California at Berkeley and Richard Hernstein
at Harvard are among the most prominent Jewish scientists and
scholars who maintain that Black people are intellectually deficient.
Hernstein's book Bell Curve harkens back to some plantation
philosophy claiming that Blacks are intellectually inferior to
Whites. Other Jews, including Howard B. Abikoff of the Long Island
Jewish Medical Center, Rachel Klein of the Long Island Medical
Center and Columbia University, and Gail Wasserman, in the Department
of Child Psychiatry at Columbia, are engaged in research which
has the potential to link genetics to violence in inner city Black
and Latino children. Where is the outrage, Coalition? Where are
the calls for repudiation?
·Journalists like Jeff Greenfield, Norman Podhoretz, Roger
Rosenblatt and other Jews have besmirched the Black image in news
shows or on the printed page. Jewish producers in Hollywood like
Norman Lear, Mort Lochman and Ed Weinberger continually produce
degrading television sitcoms, like Sugar Hill, produced
by Armyan Berstein, Tom Rosenberg and Mark Abraham. These portrayals
can only be compared to Julius Streicker's degradation of Jews
in Die Sturmer in Nazi Germany.
·The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco
Examiner, the Los Angeles Times and numerous other
newspapers have documented the fact that for decades the ADL ran
a private nationwide spy network - "a systematic, long-term,
professionally organized political espionage operation complete
with informers, infiltrators, money laundering, code names, wiretapping
and secret meetings." Newspapers have revealed that among
the 950 organizations and 10,000 individuals that the ADL prepared
files on were many Black groups, including the NAACP!
There are many issues of varying degrees of significance that
must also be raised to clear the air:
For thirty years Israel has maintained strong
economic, military, nuclear, scientific, academic, energy, tourist,
cultural, sports, transportation, agricultural and intelligence
ties with South Africa - and thereby prolonged Black oppression
there. Jews were the only group in this country who arrogantly
threatened to protest the visit of revered African National Congress
Chairman and now President Nelson Mandela to the United States
in 1990. They have labeled Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu "anti-Semites"
while the 110,000 Jewish South Africans are, in fact, the richest
single community in the world.
The late Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan asserted that the
quality of American military forces had deteriorated because they
were composed of Blacks "who have low intelligence and low
education." He urged America to ensure that "fresh blood
and better brains go to their forces." He is a hero in Israel.
Jewish talk show host Howard Stern was quoted in the November
1st issue of Time magazine as stating that, "they
didn't beat this idiot (Rodney King) enough." In March, he
played Ku Klux Klan songs on his broadcast and used the term "nigger"
55 times in 10 minutes. He offered the term "porch monkey"
and "yard ape" as labels for Blacks.
Furthermore, during the week of March 7, 1994, Jewish comedian
Jackie Mason was quoted by news broadcasts as having said: "The
susceptibility to violence happens to be more among Blacks than
whites - a hundred times more."
In 1991, Judge Joyce A. Karlin sentenced Korean merchant Soon
Ja Du to five years of probation, 400 hours of community service
and a fine of five hundred dollars for killing Black teenager
Latasha Harlins. Judge Stanley M. Weisberg transferred the Rodney
King case to Simi Valley and thereby virtually assured an unfair
trial for the Black victim. Superior Court Judge Roosevelt I.
Dorn, a Black jurist who had been hand-picked to hear the case
of three men charged with beating Reginald Denny during the early
hours of the L.A. Civil unrest, was removed from the case by District
Attorney Ira Reiner. Karlin, Weisberg and Reiner are all Jews.
Jewish leaders did not repudiate them for their "racism"
or "unfairness;" there were no newspaper advertisements
taken out to condemn them, nor were their names dragged before
congress to be censured.
If the Jewish Community has a longstanding interest in providing
accurate information about history, culture and traditions of
the Jewish community, as some have claimed, maybe they should
commence with one or more of the above.
Black educators need not fear cheap smear campaigns by long-time
racists. Our history is our responsibility, and we have no right
to compromise with truth or the instruction of our children. What
they teach Jewish children is their business.
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