I am curious ..why have the Jews of the South been so quiet?  This  should be our issue too!

Jews do get mentioned now, but in a very odd way.

“I feel very much like the Jews must have felt in the very beginning of the Nazi Germany takeover”

Tim Steadman said it wasn’t right to remove the flags as he protested Alabama’s far right  Gov. Robert Bentley’s order to the flags taken down from the 1898 monument after the Chareston massacre forces Governor Haley to, to make a pun, change her stripes.

“Right now, this past week with everything that is going on, I feel very much like the Jews must have felt in the very beginning of the Nazi Germany takeover,” Steadman said. “I mean I do feel that way, like there is a concerted effort to wipe people like me out, to wipe out my heritage and to erase the truths of history.”

And the Jewish heritage?   The Southern Jews, like good Germans during the Nazi era, supported sloavery and the Confederacy. One, Judah Benjamin,  even served as  Secretary of State under Jefferson Davis.

Judah Benjamin should have been someone we could remember with pride.  He   was the first Jew  to be elected to the United States Senate. Sadly he was also the first Jew to hold a cabinet position in North America .. in the sedtious cabnet of Jefferson Davis! .

As a wealthy Louisiana slave owner and the ante bellum Senator fomr that state,  Judah was an eloquent supporter of slavery.  After secession,  Jefferson Davis appointed the Jew as Attorney General, then as  Secretary of War anf finally as Secretary of State.

Judah Benjamin, however, could take credit for freeing the slaves before Lincoln’s Eamancipation Proclamation.  After failing to gain recognition of the Confederacy by France and the United Kingdom  and with the South losing the war, this Confederate Hero  advocated freeing and arming the slaves.  This was done for slaves willing to fight in the gray uniforms, but these black in gray Confederate heroes were unable to save the South.   Fleeing from Grant, the Confederate Cabinet met on May 2,  Judah Benjamin told Davis that he wanted to separate from the presidential party by going to Bahamas where he could send instructions to foreign agents. According to historian William C. Davis, “the pragmatic secretary of state almost certainly never had any intention of returning to the South once gone”.^[143] When he bade John Reagan goodbye, the Postmaster General asked where Benjamin was going. “To the farthest place from the United States, if it takes me to the middle of China.”^[144]