As a religious Jewish person, I unfortunately have come face to face with white supremacy and fear it. However looking at me people cannot, as a rule identify me as Jewish. I live myself as a white man and get all the benefits of it.
Being Jewish does not mean I am going to get pulled over and beaten by the police. I, as a Jew, do not have to worry about voter suppression.
However these horrid acts and many more are obstacles faced daily by our African American friends and neighbors.
Having lost many relatives on my father’s side from the nazis, I well know about hate and extermination. The area of my dad’s side of the family originated from, in modern day Lithuania, was bulldozed as all the Jews were taken to camps or shots.
The German government paid survivors fiscal compensation due to the fact that we helped sustain their industries and economy, while our money and other types of finances were looted by the nazis.
The same parallel has happened here in the United States. If it were not for the hard work of African Americans our country would be nowhere as advanced as we now are. Yet slaves, all the way up to modern times, the same people who helped build and sustain our country are not paid or paid often-times starvation wages for the work they have done. These self-same people are attacked by our police and criminal justice system. To me it s a zero-sum gain.
We need to pay reparations it is the very least we can do.