http://socfools.disqus.com/enTue, 20 May 2008 16:00:24 -0000http://socfools.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-jews-and-israel.html#comment-498565<p>Hi J-P,</p><p>Glad to read you again. I appreciate your methodical approach to Obama. Permit me a comment: Of what exactly does "a natural affinity" between (American) blacks and Jews consist?</p><p>I hear in that phrase a cliche that should not be tolerated. Each people's past legacy of oppression, dispossession, slavery are distinct. The dangers each face today are also distinct. The most important "affinity" for American blacks and Jews should be that they are Americans, meaning that our shared citizenship trumps ethnic, racial, or religious identity. While reading your remarks with interest, I look to American conservatism to make this happen.</p>JeremayakovkaTue, 20 May 2008 16:00:24 -0000