Bryant, thank you for sharing this heartbreaking comparison and your subsequent analysis of the deeper undertones it represents. I have been doing a lot of inner work on myself these past couple of years and am consistently striving to learn more and understand. As a Jewish woman, I can relate to the "internalized racism" you talked about, only on this end, it's "internalized anti-Semitism." There is a lot of that in the Jewish community, and to see it is disheartening. I even went through it myself during a difficult period in my life after suffering, what I later learned, is officially called "cultural violence." Anyway, enough of the novel. :) Thank you for your thought-provoking essay, and I hope it touched others as it touched me.
Bryant, thank you for sharing this heartbreaking comparison and your subsequent analysis of the deeper undertones it represents. I have been doing a lot of inner work on myself these past couple of years and am consistently striving to learn more and understand. As a Jewish woman, I can relate to the "internalized racism" you talked about, only on this end, it's "internalized anti-Semitism." There is a lot of that in the Jewish community, and to see it is disheartening. I even went through it myself during a difficult period in my life after suffering, what I later learned, is officially called "cultural violence." Anyway, enough of the novel. :) Thank you for your thought-provoking essay, and I hope it touched others as it touched me.