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Mr. Metzger,
I am that Korean guy
again. You once said to me "Why do you flood our white western
countries with mostly low-life Asian scum?"
If by "Asian scum" you mean people like Vietnamese, Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians, etc., the feeling is shared. We don't want these
low-life Southeast Asian scum among us in Korea either. Like I said before, these cat-eating Southeast Asians look different from us
East Asians. I am sick and tired of being associated with these Southeast Asians by these blind rednecks. In Korea, Vietnamese
and
Filipino brides are being imported so these rural male hicks can marry them
because no Korean women
would marry these redneck bastards. These
Southeast Asian bitches are fucking up our racial purity. See, we wanna
help your
Western countries stop this immigrant invasion and mongrelization because it will eventually affect us too. After your western countries
are completely flooded with immigrants, it'll be Japan's turn. Then it'll finally come to us. And we don't want no immigrants. Who
the hell is behind all this immigrant invasion anyway? Regarding these Vietnamese, they are such sub-human scum. If we can't stand
them, I can imagine how much they must annoy you whites. Why didn't you Americans nuke the shit out of them during the Vietnam
War??
------------------------------------------ TT says: I appreciate your candor and understand what you're telling me. I also understand that Japanese Korean and Chinese are different
from the other groups in Southeast Asia. You should start a separatist group among your people explaining these problems. That
would help the overall problem. ============================================== Saturday, July 28, 2007 Terrible Tommy,
The focus of this missive is the case against the Jews. There are many issues to consider. Let’s start with their
arrogance, rudeness and snide attitudes. Not to mention how condescending they are. I have a friend I used to work with, who
went to an Orthodox Hebrew School because he lives right next door to it. One of the first times we were together he mentioned
all the attitude problems that I mentioned in the previous paragraph. Twelve years ago, I attended a session at the
Carlebach Shul run by Dr. Ari Korenblit who is a Jewish psychologist who advertises extensively in the Jewish Press. He
focused on asking the people who met, “Do you think you’re worth knowing." I was bound for Israel at that point in time and I really felt out of it. I was on the road to my doom and I knew it. The funny thing was that all the people who attended this meeting were having major problems finding mates and
they didn’t seem to have good jobs either. To sum it up quite frankly, they were all a bunch of losers. Nevertheless, they were all a bunch of snot noses. And it is very peculiar. One of Judaism’s most cherished values
it that of tzniut or “modesty.” This value results in a strict dress code but many times doesn’t seem to result in an attitude
similar in principal. The Jews claim that just 70 years ago, 2/3rd of the Jewish community or 5.7 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
So why do the Jews still have this stupid superiority complex? I fail to understand it all. It seems to me that if I were a non-Jewish European and I had to be next to a Jew with an attitude that needed
adjusting that it is not a wonder that the Jews were targeted for all that hatred. And it’s growing back again today. Jews got into the media and promoted decadence and filth in radio, TV, newspaper and tabloids. It seems that
every tactic that could be used to destroy the moral fabric of American society was employed. And make no mistake,
I am not simply blaming all of this on the Jews. There was a whole culture of sleaze that decided that the way to make
more money was to mess people up. This must be stopped in its tracks. Jews got into the universities and they promoted the idea that they were God’s gift to planet Earth and all of this is
firmly planted in Talmudic knowledge. The Talmud says, “Israel only exists by virtue of the breath of the pure children
who study in the Beit Midrash and by extension the whole world!” I told this to my former nurse practitioner and she
said, “Well thank God for all of them!” The faulty spirituality of the Jews through the Torah is next. I simply can’t believe those wild stories in that book.
It’s too much to believe in. The belief in mythology retards the mental processed of people and eventually we all must
come to full realization of this. Luckily, Judaism and Christianity are dying but Islam and Hinduism are strong and both are gaining force in the
States. This trend has even resulted in a new TV show on CW11 called Aliens in America. My next door neighbor
told me, “Kill ‘em all and let God sort them out”. I concur, let me tell you. My landlord is a Moslem and he’s a real
sleaze. He’s a crook and everything else. JEWS FOR HITLER NYC ==============================================
MR. T, I AM A FAN OF YOURS AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT THE YEARS WERE BEFORE "1AD".
THE ROMANS DIDN'T SAY "22BC" OR "237BC". DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS? ALSO I FIND IT
FUNNY YOU ARE OR WERE A TELEVISION REPAIRMAN. I WOULD THINK YOU WOULD HAVE SMASHED
THEM TO BITS OVER FIXING THESE EVIL WHITE MIND ALTERING DEVICES. WHAT PERCENT OF
DISSERVICE WOULD YOU SAY YOU CAUSED BY REPAIRING WHITE PEOPLES TV'S? I'M NOT PICKING --
PLEASE BE HONEST. ONE LAST THING I WOULD LIKE TO ADD IS I RESPECT YOUR VIEWS ON RELIGION.
WHAT WOULD YOU ESTIMATE TO BE THE NUMBER OF SOLID WHITE FOLK SLAUGHTERED THROUGH
HISTORY TO PAVE A WAY FOR A LESSER BREED OF WHITES WHO COULD BE MORE EASILY SWAYED
TO ABIDE THE CHRISTIAN MYTH? THANK YOU MR. T. -------------------------------------------- TT says: I was raised working on TV, installing antennas and satellite dishes. I feel TV is like the public library. You are free to check
out crappy books or good ones. With TV it’s the same. You can educate yourself off TV, but you must discriminate.
I believe the Latin calender was much different than the later Christianity version. Tens of millions of Whites were killed by
Jewish Christianity in Europe alone! ==============================================
TT,
Tony Kaye was born into a Jewish orthodox family and
bought up in London's Golders
Green ( London's answer to the lower
east side of legend )Kaye is and
was a clone Gay skinhead unfamiliar
to US skinhead fashion cult
followers, the UK, London in particular
has contained a very large
homosexual sect who have adopted the
skinhead style of fashion this
has been a phenomenon since the early
80's. Mass straight skinhead
fashion followers died out post the 1982
Spanish world cup. The history
is distorted due to continued straight
skinheads in the provinces. In
fact neo nazi skinheads wishing to
travel incognito on public
transport would often stick a red ribbon
on their jacket to ensure
against attacks from ethnics and other
enemies. To return to Kaye, not
any sort of film maker he worked for
the arch zionist Saachi and
Saachi who cornered the 80's and 90's
market in public information and
social engineering filmed
advertising. Often featuring
ethnic minorities prominently in
positive lights in their
adverts. So we have a whole US movement
fixated and mesmerized by an
orthodox homosexual Jew's who's preferred
boyfriends wear skinhead clothing
and I’m supposed to believe this
has some relevance to the white
Aryan fight for existence ? That
films which portray neo Nazi
leaders as cowards is supposed to
enthuse me to the cause? What
utter bullshit. The most interesting
character in it is the younger
brother tasked to write History X he
is the character who is
oppressed liberated and finally killed by the
weakness of his own side and the
ruthlessness of the enemy. In the
only interview he gave on the
issue Kaye said it was Norton's over
acting as the pre skinhead
character that made him seek legal advice
to remove his name from the
credits when he was told he couldn't edit
it out. Kaye says it is
unbelievable that such a character could
become X and is Norton
"actoring". The bottom line is that X is not a
film for whites, granted the
Kerbstone clip pisses of blacks but
that’s its only plus.
----------------------------------- TT says: I get the impression this person wants to take me to the woodshed. I think sometimes we get over-examine something.
Now after talking to hundreds of young people a good share of them saw the movie as having points that were beneficial
to us. You don't always get the whole by. Even the reviewers have said that the strongest scenes supported the white
racial view while the social Marxist scenes were weak. ==============================================
BLACKS CANNOT RUN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES WITHOUT WHITE HELP. Food shortages have become common in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is to start circulating a new 200,000 Zimbabwe dollar note, in a bid to tackle the country's inflation, the highest
in the world. The new note, issued by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe from Wednesday, can buy 1kg (2.2lb) of sugar. Food and fuel shortages have become common as the government relies more heavily on imports, pushingprices to new heights. The official annual rate of inflation in Zimbabwe is nearing 5,000%. In practice, this means the price of a loaf of bread costs 50 times more in cash than it did a year ago. ==============================================
A British white Patriot who hoarded masses of explosives for a race war was jailed yesterday. Former British National Party candidate Robert Cottage, 49, was arrested after (((((his worried wife told a social worker
about his stockpile of chemicals.)))))) When police officers raided his home in Colne, Lancashire, last September,
they discovered the chemicals, along with food and supplies amassed because he feared the country was on the
brink of civil war. Cottage, who stood for the BNP in last year's local elections, was cleared after two trials of conspiracy
to cause explosions but admitted possession of the chemicals. Alistair Webster QC, defending, said his client admitted buying chemicals to make gunpowder but this would only be used
to create "thunder flash" style bangers to scare off intruders. Sentencing Cottage to two-and-a-half years in prison, Mrs Justice Swift said there was no evidence the chemicals had been
opened or that Cottage had attempted to experiment with making gunpowder. But she told Manchester Crown Court his actions were "criminal and potentially dangerous". She added Cottage had
believed that, as he saw it, "the evils of uncontrolled immigration" would lead to civil war, which would be imminent and
inevitable. The judge went on: "The pre-sentence report says Cottage continues to hold views that veer towards the apocalyptic.
(OH MY)The risk of further offending of the same type is low but it cannot be ruled out." Cottage has already served 10-and-a-half months in jail and is likely to be free within six months. ==============================================
SENATE COULD VOTE ON HATE BILL NOW
Sen. Gordon Smith’s office this
morning that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a vote on the federal hate
crimes bill before Congress adjourns for the summer. That means by the end of
this week!
Smith’s spokesman said the hate bill
was introduced several weeks ago as
an amendment to the military
re-appropriations bill only to speed up the
process. It could be as easily
submitted as a stand alone bill anytime
Reid can fit it into the Senate’s busy
schedule.
------------------------------------------------- TT says: The preachers are scared stiff of this bill, because they could be dragged off the pulpit for talking about homosexuals.
No worry, none of those preachers give a damn that about us. Most of them would throw us under the wheels of the
train. Worse is better. The more they drive people to the wall the more likely they are to rebel. ==============================================
NORTH TOLEDO -- It's been nearly two years since a neo-Nazi rally sparked riots in a north Toledo neighborhood.
Now Toledoans are facing another possible visit from a neo-Nazi group in mid-August, and the people who live in north
Toledo hope the city will keep them out of city limits entirely.
The trouble started October 15, 2005,
when a group called the National Socialist Movement planned a march through a
north Toledo neighborhood, saying black gangs had been harassing white residents. Around noon, the group hadn't even
started marching when counter-protesters starting breaking into businesses and setting fires in the area around Woodward
High School in north Toledo. That's when Police Chief Mike Navarre called
off the NSM's march before it started.
In the four hours after that, people
turned their anger on police, throwing rocks and bottles at officers, cars,
fire trucks,
and a county Life Squad.
------------------------------------------------- TT says: I guess somebody's going to march in Toledo this weekend. Call 419-754-2266 for our opinion. ******************************************************************************************* OH MY: Investigators are closing in on one of the last living top German war Heroes Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday. Germany has for decades been searching for Aribert Heim, an SS doctor accused of having killed hundreds of
concentration camp inmates with heart injections. Earlier this month, Austria said it was offering a 50,000 euro
($68,260) reward for information leading to the arrest of Heim and Alois Brunner, an aide to Adolf Eichmann who
helped organize the deportation of Jews to death camps.Spiegel magazine said investigators were focusing on
Spain and Austria in their hunt and that they had their sights on friends and relations of Heim, known as "Dr Death" at the Mauthausen concentration camp. The magazine did not name its sources. The 93-year-old is
presumed to be living in Spain or Latin America, according to the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre. Germany
had offered a 130,000-euro reward for Heim a few years ago but Austria's move was the first offer it has made for
Nazi war criminals. The Alpine country has been accused for decades of dragging its feet over prosecuting Nazis and
for being lenient when they are brought to court. ==============================================
Dear Terrible
I am the one who compiled the information for the Joseph Tommasi
Tribute
webpage ( http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/aiwsf/tommasi_tribute.html ).
I didn't have any idea that this page
would go on to have so many thousands
of visitors. Being that WAR/Insurgent
has promoted this strategy more, and
for longer, than anywhere else, I
would gladly add any text regarding Joseph
Tommasi that you wished to send. The
longer the better.
I knew Joe Tommassi personally back in the early seventies. I met him and some of his NSLF soldiers at the New
Christian Crusade Church convention headed by James K. Warner. I was still wet behind the ears and pretty naive
at the time. Actually the first physical meet was when the hotel elevator door slid open into the meeting hall and there
he was. Dressed in Levis, a sweat shirt and army fatigue jacket plus combat boots. In fact all his men were dressed
like 60's left wing radicals. There was one very beautiful girl in the
group also and she dressed the same.
I talked to Joe for a few minutes but
it was obvious he was way out front of what I was into. But he was very
gracious
and polite as we spoke.
And then they were gone like people on
a mission. Later when Joe rolled a surplus smoke grenade down the isle of the
Hollywood theater that was premiering the big budget Film "Holocaust" I laughed and laughed. On the smoke bomb
he had attached a note. "HELLO THIS IS A FREINDLY GIFT FROM YOUR LOCAL NAZI PARTY". The theater
was packed with hundreds of big shots, politicians, Hollywood Jews etc. The poured into the streets and were not
allowed back in the theater for 2 hours. Next day the Los Angeles Times headlines screamed "Nazi's bomb premier
of the film
"Holocaust".
Up until a short time before Joe was a
spit and polish uniform wearing National Socialist who went by the book? Joe
told me he had been National Socialist since his early teens. Joe inherited a house in Elmonte, Ca. Which he turned into
a headquarters for the old Rockwell party now being led by Mat Kahl. Joe recruited a lot of people in the L.A. area
and performed many marches. Joe was a natural leader of men and did not believe in going completely by the book.
He allowed some beer drinking in the
headquarters and an occasional female companion into his room.
This was one of the things that led to
his downfall. Mat Kohl was unmarried bachelor type, that like many National
socialist were at the time what could be considered tight asses. Not all by any means but Kohl wanted to run the
headquarters like a monastery which didn’t fit well with Joe. He was a working class guy who knew how to handle
working class people. He was evolving through a Brown shirt stage into a Freebooter which was the foreunner of the
street action NS.
Commander Khol called for a nation
convention in the Midwest. So Joe and a few others attended. A trap was sprung
at this meeting. A couple of officers like Joe owned the building that served as headquarters for the party in Elmonte and
I believe Chicago. They were talked into signing their
headquarters over to the national party, i.e. Mat Khoel.
Not long after National headquarters
using the excuse that Joe was allowing parties beer and women into his Elmonte
headquarters Khoel kicked Joe out of his own Headquarters.
From there, Joe seeing the folly of
right wing membership organizations, created the NATIONAL SOCIALIST
LIBERATION FRONT. An Order style loose cell type group wearing street clothes, surplus military jackets much like
the left wing. They grew hair long and many had beards. They could move through the streets of L.a with out notice. No
armbands, badges or any other identifying trinkets. They trained in the mountains and the deserts. They attacked Marxist
book stores and meetings, rumors are the bombed a couple of porn shops. The published a very slick magazine with big
pictures with captions such as "POWER COMES FROM OUT OF A BARREL OF A GUN" and many more revolutionary
mottos and articles.
But as all this was going on Joe
festered at the idea that his home and headquarters had been swindled from him.
Every few
days he drove past his old home. It was now run on the total Hollywood version with full uniforms and spit and polish. Even
with armed sentries in front of the building. One day Joe went past and a young security guard yelled at him in a disrespectful
way. Joe slammed on the breaks and exited his car heading towards this young guard. The young guard only 16 pulled his gun and
shot Joe in the chest. Joe died at the scene in front of his own house.
I was running a book sales booth at
the Pomona gun show when Joe’s wife approached me. She was pregnant with Joe’s
child.
After giving her a big hug, she told me she was going back to Joes parents home to live and have the baby. Joe was
from Italian background and his parents had operated an Italian restaurant in Kansas. Some where in my archives I have a picture
of the sign for the family restaurant. One of his closest comrades was named Rust. 25 years or so ago I tracked him
down. He told me he had a trunk full of records and pictures. I thought this should be made into a book about Joe but
after agreeing at first, Rust kept giving me the run around after that and I never was able to get those papers. Joe’s
boy would be in his
thirties by now but I never heard from them after they went back to Kansas.
It is my opinion that if Joe’s NSLF
ideas of organization would have spread across the nation we would be in a much
better situation than we are now in. Unfortunately, Joe Tommassi like Robert Mathews did not have enough time to
get it really rolling big time.
---------------------------------------- TT says: it's been a long time. And I'm sure some things have slipped my mind. And I'm delinquent in writing this up. If any
of you know who runs the website for Joe Tomassi please tell me or get this to them. ============================================== TT, I have a feeling that the Zionist American occupation of Iraq will end in humiliating defeat much like the Israeli
occupation of South Lebanon that lasted from 1978 - 2000. Note the haunting description of Israel's defeat by British journalist Robert Fisk
"The last Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon, the very end of an
occupation that has cost up to 20,000 lives and lasted for 22 years in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, were hiding inside their artillery battery in the old Crusader keep at Beaufort Castle last night, awaiting a helicopter evacuation under the cover of darkness. Hizbollah mortar shells continued to fall around the castle, whose ruins stand high above the Litani river gorge. The Israelis' final retreat will mark the defeat by a rag-tag guerrilla army of one of the world's most powerful fighting forces." (Hizbollah, the Party of God.) Nasrallah speaks of Israel's second defeat by Hizbolloah:
"We are today before a strategic, historic victory, without exaggeration," he said in a taped speech on Hezbollah's
al-Manar TV. Nasrallah said the massive destruction inflicted by Israel was an expression of its "failure and impotency." And he
promised Hezbollah would help the Lebanese people rebuild. ============================================== T.M.............Your exposure of Barak by Ted Sampley was excellent. I would like to contact him to see if he has
additional info on this Buckwheat Bastard....I would like to send this to dozens of newspapers, television stations
and commentators, et. al......WE MUST AWAKEN THE SLEEPING WHITE PUBLIC TO THIS HYBRID SCUM.. Any help you can provide would be appreciated !!!!!!!!!
------------------------------------------ TT says: You should be able to google him up. There is a book that the title escapes my feeble mind about the entire Mau
Mau affair. I think they made a movie of it. ==============================================
First set of Iraq refugees to land
Teacher who was jailed under Saddam's regime and his family are part of half-dozen arriving today.
Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
A half-dozen refugees from Iraq will arrive at Detroit Metropolitan Airport today, including a family of a teacher who was jailed under Saddam Hussein’s regime, refugee officials said. Few details about the arrivals were released Tuesday. But it is known that
the teacher's family of five -- the father, who was arrested; the mother, who also teaches; and three sons -- will live with relatives in Sterling Heights. Another refugee, also expected to arrive today, has no relatives or sponsors in the United States, but officials say they have obtained an apartment in Dearborn for that person. The group is the first of about 150 to 200 refugees from the war in Iraq expected to arrive in Metro Detroit in the coming months, with a few thousand more expected to arrive over the next three to five years.
"We welcome them all with open arms," said Joseph Kassab, president of the Chaldean Federation of America. "We know that others will follow and, we hope, shortly." Kassab said the refugees will be greeted by members of a resettlement committee prepared and organized by the Chaldean federation. The agency has labored for several years to locate many of the displaced persons, including 2 million who have fled Iraq for neighboring countries, including Syria, Jordan and Turkey. The teacher's family left Iraq in 2003
and stayed in Turkey, according to Barbara Lewis, a spokeswoman
for Lutheran Social Service of Michigan,
which earlier this year obtained a $300,000 contract from the federal government to organize and coordinate the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in Michigan. The teacher and his family are Chaldeans, a group of Iraqi Christians who live in Metro Detroit in greater numbers than anywhere outside of Iraq. "They were originally from Baghdad, where the parents were teachers," Lewis said. "The father was arrested by Saddam, because there were two sons who had left for Greece and they all had relatives in the United States. "After they finally left Iraq in 2003, their anchor relatives from here visited them in Turkey two years ago. They were living amid poor conditions, in a very small building with a leaky roof. But they also said they were aware they were better off than some of the other refugees." ============================================== Terrible Tom says,
It's a long article but very revealing
Assimilation and its Discontents
Why Jews love hip-hop (and try so hard
to befriend black people)
Culture Hip-hop music Pop
Culture race
During
the last two years writing my first book, Other People’s Property:
A
Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America, I’ve found that, over the
past three
decades, white people have used hip-hop as a safe, virtual
space
to tackle or elude the complicated legacy (and present) of race in
our
country. Every time we buy a Ying-Yang Twins CD or bust a backspin or
attempt
to use Ebonics, we are telling ourselves a story—about America,
about
race, and about ourselves.
So what
story are Jews, specifically, telling ourselves? What draws so
many of
us to keep it (Is)real? (Full disclosure: that joke was stolen
from respected
Jewish hip-hop blogger Dan Charnas. See? We're everywhere!)
My
fascination with hip-hop has always intrigued and amused my
third-generation Italian wife, Denise, who grew up in the more ethnically
explicit suburbs of Long Island and always wondered what could possibly
link my
laid-back, West Coast, manicured-lawn childhood with the drive-by
ghettoes of Compton.
But
after that fascination impacted the trajectory of our lives—the book
deal
led me to leave work to sit in my pajamas and play "Criminal Minded"
over
and over again—she felt it was time to get to the bottom of it. Not
long
ago, we sat down for a conversation, one in which my beloved wife
called
me a wimp with an attraction for black men:
Wait
till you see my American studies syllabus: The Ying-Yang twinsDenise:
OK,
honey, don't get me wrong. I love hip-hop, too. My paisans were
breakdancing back in elementary school, and referring to themselves as
"posses," and all that nonsense. But you Jews take it to another
level. I
understand the fascination with Chinese food, but come on: What is the
freaking deal with Jews and hip-hop?
Jason:
Well, I think the answer is obvious.
Denise:
So do I.
Jason:
Hip-hop is the music of struggle, and we, because of our history of
oppression, are naturally drawn to narratives of resistance and civil
rights.
Denise:
Oh, that’s funny. I was going to say, “because you’re all who need
to
identify with big, tough black guys in order to feel less insecure.”
Jason:
(silence)
Denise:
You go first.
Fight
the power!: An Israeli brochure commemorating the 1963 Civil Rights
march
on Washington, DC.Jason: Let’s start with history. Jews have always
held a
unique tie to black music, from Al Jolson to the Chess brothers —
whose
label launched Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley—to the great blues
songwriters Leiber and Stoller. I’m pulling this from John Leland’s “Hip:
The
History,” in which he writes: “Barred from the high avenues of culture
and
finance, which looked askance at ethnicity, the two groups [i.e.,
blacks
and Jews] established black culture as an engine of identity and
profit,
and the civil rights movement as the nation’s moral conscience.”
Denise:
"Profit," indeed. Weren't Jews responsible for many of those
exploitative recording deals that left those black innovators with
nothing?
Jason:
Guilty as charged. But I think, from the perspective of Jewish rap
fans,
emotional history may be even more important than economic or
cultural history. I remember learning about the Holocaust as a Reform Jew
growing
up in the not-very-Jewish city of Tacoma, Washington. It was
extremely difficult to reconcile such severe, pure suffering with the
relatively assimilated and secularized life I was living. I went to Hebrew
school
and had a bar mitzvah, but if you’d asked, I would have identified
myself
as “white” rather than “Jewish.” My greatest spiritual quandary was
how
many colleges I should apply to. I knew that Jews had a history of
being
oppressed and despised, but I sure didn’t feel it, and that made me
feel
separated from, forgive the expression, “my people,” and also left me
with
the impression that I was living a sheltered, gilded life.
Denise:
Is this what led so many of your fellow Tacomans to become more
serious
about their Judaism?
Jason:
I haven't asked them about this specifically, but I'd imagine so.
As you
know, a couple of my close family friends—some of the laxest Reform
Jews
I've ever met—grew up to make their religion a central organizing
principle of their lives. I don't think it's a coincidence that one of
them
became much more invested in his religion after studying with Elie
Wiesel
at Boston University. How can you not feel disgustingly coddled and
inauthentic after a couple of conversations with that cat?
Jewish
angst: Should I go to Brown or Cornell?I never studied with Wiesel.
Instead, I found Public Enemy. You have to remember, this was the late
1980s,
and hip-hop sounded much more dangerous and angry than it does
today.
Nobody represented that like Public Enemy, who rapped about prison
breaks
and shutting down corporations like Nike if they didn’t invest more
of
their profits in the black community. Meanwhile, hardcore groups like
N.W.A.
presented a horrorscape of urban neglect that (I thought) sounded
like
the kind of fate the Jews might have faced if we hadn’t been so good
at
assimilating.
Denise:
But that's what assimilation is for! So you don't have to live
through
something like that! Don't you think it's a bit patronizing to go
chasing
after mass-marketed reproductions of the very crime and poverty
your
ancestors proudly escaped?
Jason:
Patronizing? Sure. But that's another classic element of the way
that
Jewish guilt intersects with race. Think back to the 1960s, when Jews
helped
to lead the Civil Rights movement, then were shocked when they felt
they
were met with widespread anti-Semitism. As a friend of mine once put
it, it
wasn't the assistance that pissed people off, but the
paternalistic, we-know-best way in which it was delivered.
The
original panty-waist sissy-boy: Also the orginal album art for "Get
Rich or
Die Tryin'"
Denise:
But anti-Semitism still exists, even thrives. Why couldn't that
motivate you?
Jason:
I knew in an abstract way that there were still anti-Semites out
there,
but I couldn’t imagine what it was like to live through the
Holocaust, or to be the recipient of such direct, virulent hatred.
Listening to rap, I thought, helped me identify with a despised and angry
people.
In a weird way, it helped me to feel more Jewish.
Denise:
Isn't that what Sunday school is for?
Jason:
Yeah, well, it didn't work. All I got there was "never again." And
yet
there was race-based suffering and violence breaking out all around
us. But
because it was happening to black people and not to Jews, it
wasn't
seen as our moral responsibility. Instead, we got all hot and
bothered about the nativity scene the fundies wanted to erect in front of
town
hall.
Denise:
You know what I think of when you talk about how pure and angry
hip-hop
used to be? I think about that scene in Annie Hall where Alvy and
his
wife are at a cocktail party, and he churlishly runs off to a bedroom
to
watch the Knicks. When his wife asks him just what the hell he’s doing,
he
says, “It’s physical. It’s one thing about intellectuals; they prove
that
you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea of what’s going on.”
Jason:
Maybe he’s right.
it
takes a nation of millions to hold us back: Flav in the good old
daysDenise: Maybe, but he’s also equating blackness with
anti-intellectualism, physicality, and a weird kind of “purity.” I’d
suggest
that’s at least a tiny bit racist. There’s a long history of that,
too,
going back to Norman “Also Jewish” Mailer’s famous “White Negro”
essay.
Ahem: “[T]he Negro (all exceptions admitted) could rarely afford
the
sophisticated inhibitions of civilization, and so he kept for his
survival the art of the primitive, he lived in the enormous present, he
subsisted for his Saturday night kicks, relinquishing the pleasures of the
mind
for the more obligatory pleasures of the body,” and so on and so on.
Jason:
Reading that, it's no surprise that Mailer was an in-your-face
macho
brawler who once stabbed his wife.
Denise:
Right! There's that whole, weird "tough Jew" thing. That Philip
Roth,
Meyer Lansky, Saul Bellow deal. Buffed-up bald guys with lots of
back
hair taking a shvitz. Getting ringside tickets to the Ali fight.
Where
does that come from?
Jason:
I think that's the way some folks react to operating around the
margins
of society. You get those same stereotypes in the Irish community
as
well, right? Shit, some of your Sicilian relatives are like that.
Denise:
But you're not one of those guys. You're a wimp.
Jason:
Right. Well, I never operated around the margins of society. I'm no
Leon
Trotsky. I'm more like the rabbi in the old joke who is asked when
life
begins. The priest says "At the moment of conception" and the rabbi
says
"When the kid graduates from medical school." Education and access to
a
bourgeois lifestyle were always assumed. I was raised to think that I
was
inheriting this mantle of outsider-ness, but nothing has ever been
off-limits to me. Indeed, I've always expected that I'd be able to do
pretty
much whatever I've wanted. I never had to scream to be heard. I
never
had to prove my manhood in that way.
You
talkin' to me?: Tough-guy MailerDenise: So instead of being a tough
guy,
you surround yourself with this music that's filled with violence and
profanity and rough sex. It's this way of unleashing your dirty-Jewish-boy
id
without upsetting your nice-Jewish-boy superego.
Jason:
Hmm. I think it's relevant that some of the most hardcore music out
there
was published by Jews. Jerry Heller managed NWA, and Rick Rubin
reportedly
championed Public Enemy despite Russell Simmons's disinterest.
Denise:
Are you equating NWA's ultraviolence with Public Enemy's politics?
Jason:
Well, from the standpoint of a Jew looking for some direct,
physical, emotionally relevant conflict, there may not be much of a
difference. Look, you're right, I feel like a weenie, but it's not just
because
I read a lot and have no jump shot and weigh 140 pounds soaking
wet. I
feel like a weenie because I also have no barriers to fight
against. Hip-hop provides me with both: an outlet for my repressed id, and
also a
cause that I can align myself with.
Denise:
I'm not sure that, psychologically speaking, those aren't
fundamentally the same thing.
Jason:
No, me neither.