Roger L. Simon: The sadness of our times-Rev. Eric Lee

An interview I did with Daphna Ziman concerning remarks made by a man named Reverend Eric Lee is now up on Pajamas. Since doing the interview and writing the accompanying text, I have learned that Reverend Lee has written a response, which I had read over the phone to me. I want to read it in detail, but from what I gathered he essentially acknowledges that Ziman is correct, at least in part, in what she said he said. Lee seems genuinely to espouse the belief that African-Americans should only reconcile with Jews if Jews apologize for the supposed evil stereotypes they created of blacks via, I assume, the movies. I wonder if Lee means that Jew Stanley Kramer who made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Defiant Ones. Or that Jew Ed Zwick who directed Glory? Maybe he's talking about me for scripting Richard Pryor's Bustin' Loose? It's not the greatest film in the world (though it did win an Image Award that year from the NAACP), but if I was trucking in black stereotypes, I'd like to know. Richard might have too, if he were with us. Or what Jew does Lee really mean? I'd like to see him name names. I'll name one - The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Lee is reading from that old racist playback. He is a racist himself.

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This is the end result of the shuck and jive of Political Correctness and Diversity and as 'Rev.' Wright say's "the chickens are coming home to roost." It will get a lot worse before it gets any better, we are allowing the Islamists to fund Islamic Departments in our Universities and there is going to be a lot of 'Reverends' saying the same thing, listen closely and you can hear the click of Jack Boots.

I live in Detroit and a while back worked for a government department that was mostly black. What is saddest--and most insidious--is that even among blacks who are by no stretch of the imagination anti-Semitic, overt anti-Semitism is not considered in any way disqualifying.

I have no doubt that a number of blacks rushed up to Ms. Zinman after the speech and offered sincere apologies. Note that it's not reported that anyone got up and left, much less said anything, during his vile rant. And I would bet that none of the people who apologized would hesitate in the slightest to join with Rev. Lee in any function or activity in the future.

As to Lee being a racist...as some of you have noticed, there's an attempt, largely successful, to redefine "racism" so blacks cannot be subject to it. Of course it's an attempt to leverage alleged victimhood into power--subjecting people to rules you yourself don't have to follow.

The black community simply does not consider anti-Semitism within it to be a problem.

I wonder if people like this loon Lee have any idea how really ridiculous they sound to other people? I mean really, this makes them look and sound ridiculous.

It's well past time to confront this poison. If this primary campaign season has accomplished anything, it's that liberalism's tragedy mask of exclusive white racism and bigotry has been ripped off. Nothing of this nature improves in the dark. I'm surprised it took so long.

The sad part of this whole is story that if a White Southerner so much as coughs as he walks by a synagogue, liberal Jews will say "aha, he's an antisemite, the little goyishakop with the turned up nose". But if a mob of Black youths burned down an entire Jewish neighborhoods, these same Jewish liberals will say "some stupid Jew must have said something to upset them, it's our fault not theirs".

I think it was David Horowitz who hypothesized that Blacks resented that White Jews literally died in the effort to bring about Civil Rights for the Blacks in the South.

April 9, 2008: The sadness of our times-Rev. Eric Lee

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