An Open Letter To Bernie Goldberg From The Paranoid

So, Bernie, you think black people have a problem.

But, unlike so many others, you're a Jew and so saying it nicely:

  “Because I opened this piece saying I’d be polite, civil and kind,…I won’t say,...that black liberals, perhaps because of slavery and segregation, have become paranoid on matters of race, seeing racism even where it doesn’t exist.

I won’t say any of that — even if it’s true.” 

I agree - if you don't count how it IS real now - there's no denying it:

400 years of "slavery and segregation" (repeat that number to yourself) can appear to have done a number on us, when we've only been free - of just the legal part - for (think of this:) less time than I've been alive.

Personally, I'd think, you'd be more understanding. 

I mean, while lecturing blacks, you make no mention of what it means that whites - who stole and kept all the money - are (and have been) so completely unaffected, by this massive festering scar on American lives, even today.

The impression I get from your piece, probably along with a lot of other blacks, is that American whites must be a remarkably bright and sensitive people.

Not into wrenching their garments like the Germans, huh, Bern?

You also don't mention how blacks are supposed to make up the financial difference - or compartmentalize the theft of their ancestor's labor - in such a short period of time.

I mean, our family's enslaver's families are all blowing our money, right before our eyes, on whatever they see fit.

Is that a meal any Jew would think "kosher" to swallow?

Perhaps it's because - even with your long history in television news and covering Civil Rights - you never bothered to make anything like 12 Years a Slave, and so, have also never fully dealt with what whites have done to put themselves in such a cushy position.

And this, while blacks have been coping with it - including it's aftereffects - for fully 400 years (which, like slavery itself, most whites can barely comprehend, though they mourn JFK's 50 year assassination anniversary - and expect others to mourn - as some epic event in the life of the nation). Murder was (and, as Trayvon represented to many, still can be) our daily lives.

No, Bernie, a "black bird singing in the dead of night," you are not.

But I will never forget The Holocaust - like the guy in the movie, it lasted for 12 years - though slavery went on, practically forever, for American blacks.

And that guy, recently discovered, with a treasure trove of the Nazi's stolen paintings? 

He should give them back - right, Bernie?

Look, I don't want to press you, Pops.

Seeing how you're a Jew - I, too, can afford to be generous:

By assuming you'll get around to addressing all that, ASAP,...