My partner and I were just discussing how a lot of Black people don't have the education around anti-Semitism to fully get why Nick Cannon's rant was messed up. So let me be your Black & Jewish educational fairy godmother

First, that Rothschild bank theory. That ain't real.

Many Jewish people in Europe were forced to work in banking because of laws restricting them from entering other types of work. This is where the stereotypes of stingy, money grubbing, banking, etc. Come from.

But it was the racist/anti-Semitic structures that pushed Jewish people into that system in the first place.

This is similar to calling Black people Welfare Queens- a system was created that locked people into place and a stereotype was invented around it.

One old-timey Jewish family being rich doesn't mean there's a conspiracy theory. It's like wealth inequality has existed for generations! *gasp*

If you want to know who runs the banks google Bank of America and Chase (hint- they're very white and very not Jewish)

Now as far as Nick calling Jewish people savages, I hope it's pretty obvious why this is anti-Semitic.

But in case it's not, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch

Then Nick's whole original semite thing...ugh... theres so much wrong with it. So the idea is that Jews stole Black people's identity as the "true" people of israel. This means that Jewish people are to be blamed for all the racism Black people experience

You see this a lot in Farrakhan's rhetoric. Taken to the extreme, you'd have to exterminate racism you'd have to exterminate Jewish people so Black people can reclaim their spot as the "chosen people."

Farrakhan and other Black supremacists use Jewish people as a boogeyman and scapegoat to push their own agenda and cult of personality. There can be no end to racism without an end to anti-semitism

The us (Black people) vs. Them (Jewish people) people like Nick Cannon use breaks down when you have someone like me, a Black Jew.

In fact, many anti-Semitic ideas of features are rooted in anti-Blackness and vice versa: curly hair, big nose, etc.

Historically, the very idea of racism came initially from Spain and its treatment of Jews during the Inquisition. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-racism-was-first-officially-codified-in-15thcentury-spain these types of racial codifications were later used to entrench chattel slavery in what would become the U.S.

I know lots of white Jewish people are racist. I know lots of Black people are anti-Semitic. I know these communities have hurt each other, and I know from personal experience it is much harder to be Black in the U.S. than it is to be Jewish. But all oppression is connected.

Anyway, there's a lot more to be said but I'll leave it there for now. Go head and ask questions if you're here to learn. Other Black Jews especially feel free to chime in.

Adding this because people keep saying Viacom fired Nick because he's a Black man exercising his freedom of speech.

Stop it. Colin Kaepernick was fired for exercising his freedom of speech. Nick Cannon was fired for shooting off racist conspiracy theories.

Viacom is a racist company that has stock in for-profit prisons. Maybe Nick was given a quicker hook than a white person saying the same things would have been. Doesn't make it any less racist or mean Nick should be expected to not face consequences.

Black people: you cannot want people to suffer consequences for racist actions *but only when they're racist against Black people." You also can't have it so Black people aren't also held responsible for racist actions. That's not how justice and liberation works.

Idk if this counts as viral enough to promote something but support Black SWers and other things that make Hoteps angry https://www.blacksexworkercollective.org/ 

While the response has been overwhelmingly positive, since posting this I've been called uneducated, a coon, a n*gger, a colonizer, and of all things, an anti-semite. That's the type of anti-Black and anti-Semitic silencing tactics going on.

Do Black Jewish lives matter to you?