/*<i am a jew,i spent years wearing an israeli uniform and i will go
to these places just to show that in spite of all we are still here
and we go where we please!!! > clip ...*
/I must say, this has got the kind of - forgive me - "up yours"
attitude I can embrace. It also underscores, I think, one of the
fundamentals that fuels xenophobia which then blooms into prejudice,
ostracism, murder, pain and loss: in the absence of exposure and
open communication, in the absence of "air and light," the worst of
ignorant notions flourish and take hold.
I have been listening to this exchange and find it to be very
powerful and important. For me it has kind of a "never again"
overtone. My parents quite literally had to run away from home, and
lost so much because of hate that seemed to thrive on separating
"them" from "us."
I personally don't think we live in a world anymore where separating
or avoiding or "holing up" in any way really, at the end of the day,
works. Our world has just become way too small. I love the
individual who wrote (paraphrasing now: I walked around Czernowitz
with my yarmulke tho I rarely wear it elsewhere.
Last week, here in the US, Congress at last apologized for not taking
action with respect to the lynchings that took place here in the US.
Just yesterday we got a jury to find that old man who 30-some years
ago helped kill those 3 freedom fighters in Mississippi guilty - ok,
of manslaughter, not murder, but we are moving slowly in the right
direction. Does this mean civil rights is home free? No, not by a
long shot.
Czernowitz and/or Vienna "belong" to "us" as much as they "belong" to
"them." Ownership, perhaps, may be redefined as the bumpy road to
partnership.
My two cents ...
Nina
Received on 2005-06-23 16:45:56
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 2006-01-08 17:00:17 PST