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Jackson, a star wide receiver with the Philadelphia Eagles, has apologized for his Instagram post of an anti-Semitic quote attributed to Adolf Hitler; và Cannon has issued two apologies for anti-Semitic comments made on his podcast, “Cannon’s Class,” during an interview with Richard Griffin (aka Professor Griff, formerly the “Minister of Information” for the hip-hop group Public Enemy). For Cannon, though ViacomCBS cut ties with hlặng, his contrition was enough for Fox, which is keeping hyên ổn on as host of its hit competition series “The Masked Singer.”
Both Jackson và Cannon have sầu pledged to educate themselves on the subject, a move that would have served everyone better if they had done that before slandering an entire group of people with hurtful conspiracies and accusations. And of course one can’t help but wonder if this newfound desire khổng lồ learn more is sincere or simply self-preservation. I genuinely hope it is the former. No group owns suffering & no one is too old to lớn grow.
My first brush with anti-Semitism started at trang chủ. My family didn’t collect Nazi memorabilia or anything conspicuous lượt thích that. Growing up, one of my favorite things to bởi was visit family members in Chicago. I loved the cookouts, music and trips khổng lồ the Maxwell Street Market many residents “affectionately” referred to as “Jewtown.” One day I asked a family thành viên why it was called that và she said it was because before buying anything we had khổng lồ first “jew the price down.”
For 40 years that conversation has stuchồng with me. I didn’t have the vocabulary to express or fully understand it back then but I knew enough to lớn feel that there was something fundamentally wrong with the name “Jewtown” & how it was talked about. Despite growing up in the segregated South, I never heard my relatives speak ill of White people and I’m sure no one felt that line of thinking — that shorthvà stereotyping — was harmful.
By the time I got to lớn college, I had become intrigued by the message of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the teachings of the Nation of Islam. This was during the height of Gen X Afrocentricity. I was wearing leather necklaces with medallions shaped lượt thích Africa, engaged in spirited conversations about “The Isis Papers” — Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s bestselling 1992 book about the psychiatry of racism — while X-Clan was playing in the background.
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The first march/prothử nghiệm I ever attended as an adult was the Million Man March in 1995. A bunch of us from college rode in a university van lớn Washington, D.C., khổng lồ hear Farrakhan share his thoughts on what Blaông xã men needed to vì lớn uplift our communities. I fondly remember all of us singing along to “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now” by McFadden và Whitehead as we approached the city.
It was incredibly powerful to lớn see so many brothers — young and old — gathered for the sole purpose of making a difference baông chồng trang chủ. Because of that day and Minister Farrakhan, I began reading more; worked lớn help underserved youth; even walked the streets with my church to disrupt drug dealers on the corners và discourage gang violence.
I tried my best to ignore the occasional anti-Semitic sertháng that reminded me of the day I was told khổng lồ “jew the price down.” Eventually Farrakhan’s repulsive sầu words about the Jewish community became too much for me to lớn ignore. I just don’t believe sầu you need lớn tear another group down in order lớn lift your group up. Exposing lies and dismantling unjust systems I’m all here for — but talk of white devils? Nah, man, that just ain’t how I’m built. And if a popular leader were khổng lồ refer to lớn my community as Black devils, I’m sure the response would be adjusted accordingly.
As I said earlier, my family didn’t mean any harm with their stereotypes, they just didn’t know any better. Jackson and khổng lồ a degree Cannon also voiced a laông xã of clarity on the issues in their subsequent apologies. (“I feel ashamed of the uninformed & naive place that these words came from,” Cannon tweeted Wednesday.) But the ignorance of the offender doesn’t explain away everything about these recent episodes. It doesn’t explain why public chastisement over anti-Semitic comments is fairly muted when compared to lớn the reaction to lớn racists’ remarks. It doesn’t explain why some Blachồng people feel that disparaging Jewish people is an essential element to lớn liberation.
Personally, I don’t think forcing a man onkhổng lồ his knees makes me taller.
In fact, I believe it has the opposite effect because it undermines the very principle that the struggle for eunique is rooted in: to be judged by the content of our character. I hope before the next person of note — Blaông chồng or otherwise — decides khổng lồ share some thoughts on an entire group of people they remember that.