When one of our Presidential candidates decides to apologize for being a “white” Jew, not a “black” Jew, America is in trouble

A quote from a current candidate for the United States Presidency:

As I speak, I am going to ask the white Americans in the room to please repeat after me. On behalf of myself and on behalf of my country, to you and all African Americans, from the beginning of our nation’s history, in honor of your ancestors and on behalf of your children please hear this from my heart. I apologize.

Please forgive us. With this prayer I acknowledge the depth of the evils that have been perpetrated against black people in America. From slavery to lynchings to white supremacist laws to the denial of voting rights to all the ways, both large and small, all of the evil, all of them wrong, for all the oppression, and all of the injustices, I apologize. Please forgive us. – Marianne Williamson

Her grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her grandfather changed his surname from Vishnevetsky to Williamson after seeing “Alan Williamson Ltd” on a train.

They were lucky. The Nazis did not kill them in gas vans, firing squads or burn them in ovens, like six million other Jews.

Williamson doesn’t talk much about her heritage. She ignores not just World War II genocide, but also overlooks attacks on Jews today. Assaults targeting Jews rose 13% in 2018, according to Tel Aviv University researchers. They recorded nearly 400 cases worldwide, with more than a quarter of the major violent cases taking place in the United States.

Jews represent the largest number of hate crimes against religious beliefs in this nation, according to the FBI’s most recent statistics:

58.1 percent were anti-Jewish.
18.7 percent were anti-Islamic (Muslim).
4.5 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.2 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
2.4 percent were anti-Protestant.
1.8 percent were anti-Other Christian.
1.4 percent were anti-Sikh.
1.4 percent were anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other).

Marianne’s ancestors endured pogroms – mass murders by mob – in Russia and Ukraine that killed millions throughout the Middle Ages and into the 20th century. In 1918–1919 alone, more than 1,200 pogroms took place against Russian Jews.

Her Jewish male ancestors were forced to be drafted for a term of 20 years in the Czar’s army. Many killed themselves under brutal conditions. It was an attempt to reduce Jewish marriage and children – genocide.

While Marianne and others accuse white Americans of a hate crime rampage, percentage-wise whites are less likely to commit such acts. In 2017, race was reported by the FBI for 6,370 known hate crime offenders:

50.7 percent were White (73.1% of Americans).
21.3 percent were Black or African American (12.7% of Americans)
7.5 percent were groups made up of individuals of various races.

She is correct to condemn lynchings in the South, particularly in the 1920s, and we should pledge to never let them occur again. However, this is not happening in America today, and it does not require Marianne to intercede with God on our behalf. Such chutzpah!

The last recorded lynching occurred in 1981 in Mobile, Alabama. Michael Donald, a young black man, was beaten to death by KKK members. One of the perpetrators was sentenced to death and executed in 1997. Justice was delayed 16 years by courts and greedy lawyers.

While slavery was an abomination in the U.S., other nations were far worse, but seldom criticized by today’s activists.

	Country / Destination		Slaves Delivered			%
	Brazil		4,000,000			35.3
	Spanish Empire (including Cuba)		2,500,000			22.1
	British West Indies		2,000,000			17.7
	French West Indies (including Cayenne)		1,600,000			14.1
	British North America & U.S.		500,000			4.4
	Dutch West Indies (including Surinam)		500,000			4.4
	Danish West Indies		28,000			0.2
	Europe (including Portugal, Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores,		200,000			1.8
	Total		11,328,000			100.0

Contrary to popular belief, most slaves worked in sugar and coffee plantations and mines, where some 90% died. Less than 5% were engaged in cotton production.

	First Employment		Number of Slaves			%
	Sugar Plantations		6,000,000			54.5
	Coffee Plantations		2,000,000			18.2
	Mines		1,000,000			9.1
	Domestic Labor		1,000,000			9.1
	Cotton Fields		500,000			4.5
	Cocoa Fields		250,000			2.3
	Building		250,000			2.3
	Total		11,000,000			100.0

In the Caribbean some 3.5 million slaves were imported, but by 1860 only 300,000 survived. By contrast, the 500,000 slaves imported into the U.S. had grown in population to nearly 4 million by the start of the Civil War.

Marianne may not realize that the British, French and Dutch killed ten times as many slaves as were brought into our country. They died from overwork in miserable heat, starvation, beatings and disease.

This country itself was not capturing Africans and enslaving them. The major traders were:

None of this is meant to defend slavery in America, but to put what happened here in historical and statistical perspective.

It really is time for the current purveyors of American “white guilt” to begin blaming the Nazis for mass genocide, the Russians for mob mass murders, and the European nations that murdered Africans by the millions to make a buck for their overseas corporations.

And it’s long past time to stop blaming a fair and compassionate nation of today for past horrors.

As far as the holier-than-us Marianne is concerned, here is an entertaining item from the LA Times some years ago:

Here is her pitch for black slavery reparations, billions to be paid for by both white and black American taxpayers: