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Buchenwald 42: Shanda Award Goes to Donald Sterling

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Shanda:  behavior bringing shame on the entire Jewish community. I have used this term to refer to my own brother and sister for their shameful effort to allow our father’s pictures from Buchenwald to die in a lawyer’s safe.

Wiki and other Sources: Donald Stirling, born Donald Tokowitz , has brought huge shame on himself and on the entire Jewish community.

Stirling was born in 1933 to  Susan and Mickey, Jewish immigrants who fled the horrors of Europe.[3]  The family moved to  LA where Donald graduated from California State University, Los Angeles (Class of 1956) and Southwestern University School of Law (Class of 1960) .[4]Having no chance at working for a prestigious law firm, Donald built an independent practice and claimed that he tried 10,000 cases. In 1957, Sterling married  Rochelle Stein, with whom he has three children,

Using his divorce fees well, the lawyer Sterling bought the struggling San Diego Clippers for $12.5 million in 1981 . Sterling and his Clippers struggled through many lackluster seasons, and they did not have their first winning season until the 1991-92 season, eleven years into his ownership. Sylvester Sylock Disney 1

The Tape. 

Now this Jewish lawyer has become a real life shyster (see right).  Although still married to Rochelle, Stirling lives with a strikingly beautiful half-African-American and half-Mexican ladySylvester Stirling’s strong sense of race, his bigotry and sexism is all to evident on the tape that somehow has leaked to the media. . Whether Sterling is sadly mixing up his words or only referring to Magic Johnson personally, or jealous of the brief attention his much younger girlfriend received isn’t the point.

The Shanda.  Listening to this tape was horrible.  The worst of it was that Mr. Stirling is passing as a white. 

For people who have fought so hard  to earn respect of their fellow citizens, Jews who pass  take up the horrible racial cross associated with being “white.”  Whatever else the term may mean, too many Americans take that term as is either prideful or shameful.  To those who wish to call themselves “people of color” the term denotes privilege based on race. To those who want that privilege, the term denotes a form of racism very much like that adopted both by the Nazis and by the citizens of the Confederacy.

As a biologist,  the term “white” comes close to being absurd.   Modern genetics say  that most Jews, with the exception of modern converts ,  can trace our ancestry  back about 20,000 years to the Semites of North Arabia .  We share that route with our brothers and sisters,  the Arabs.   For those,  like myself, who claim Sephardic origin,  our ancestors migrated from  Israel  to Spain  before  the beginnings of the Roman Empire.    Coming to Spain,  those far-off Semitic ancestors  settled amongst people whose ancestors came from the northern Caucuses .people who undoubtedly were lighter skinned  and,  at that time,  far less sophisticated  than my own ancestors.   Those same Caucasians might  now called  “white ”  if such a tribal or racial term still had meaning.   Modern genetics also shows that the Jews who became the Ashkenazim,  the Jews killed  in the millions by the Nazis,  were descendants  of Sephardim  who fled north to escape the anti-Semitism  infecting  Spain.

The Nazis  and their modern descendants amongst anti-Semites  around the world ,   created a contradictory myth.   In Germany of the Nazi era,  we were a race distinct  from white people .   In the anti-Semitic  mantra  of the Arab world ,  modern Jews  are “white.”

So now we have Mr. Stirling,   a Jew who not only considers himself to be a white man  but sees that  as somehow better  than being   black or brown .  Mr. Sterling,  despite wanting to make money ,  apparently doesn’t like to see  black and brown people  coming to watch his black  basketball players .   I  guess Mr. Stirling  makes these racial decisions  based on appearance .

Passing for white is very much a part of the Jewish story in America.  The Jews of the South enthusiastically supported the Confederacy.  During WWII, the American Jewish Committee convinced FDR to lay low on the issue of atrocities fearing that it might incite anti-Semitism among white Americans.

The Slaves Revolt?

The Slaves Revolt?

I can imagine Mr. Stirling among the Jews who tried to tell the Nazis, “I am not Jewish, I am white!”  I wonder if he would reject  me as a fan if he knew that my last name  was really  Negri ?

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