I get uncomfortable and annoyed with any of this crap, but my blog was just detailing an experience that I would naturally feel more strongly about. Discrimination and hatefuly language is wrong, no matter who the target is, but the word nigger is still the most potent word IN AMERICA, because of the history associated with it. That said, I believe when a black person yells out “white bitch” or “white motherfu-ker” or my personal favorite said to my (white) Uncle many years ago at the school he teaches at, “white nigga,” that person is guilty of the same racist animosities that would be associted with the word nigger, even if the words themselves do not sound as harsh. I do feel there is more acceptance of that, so on that point I think you are right.

I have had the advantage or at least the unique experience with coming from a mixed race household, with attending a private elementary and high school that was a majority Jewish and with attending a Church that was majority Irish. I have seen and heard things that have made me sensitive to prejudices from and towards many different communities. Can’t we all just get along?

There is an African-American Muslim who often sits outside the Mott Avenue train station in Far Rockaway and spews anti-Caucasian and anti-Jewish rhetoric. Policemen have said that they can’t do anything about him, and I’d like to tell you about one instance in particular. After baiting a Jewish man with a long-winded spiel, the vendor distracted the Jewish man while an assailant snuck up and struck the Jewish man’s head. The Jewish man fell, got up, and realized that the assailant had already fled the scene. Not only didn’t the large African American crowd, which had formed during the anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic tirade, complain; but when policemen arrived on the scene, nobody, other than the Jewish man, was questioned. The Jewish man asked one of the policemen why the crowd members, who had seen the assailant, weren’t being questioned. The policeman explained that none of the crowd members would say anything even if questioned, presumably, because this had been his experience over a number of years.

While it’s sad that some racial slurs made by Caucasians are met with silence, is anyone suggesting that African-Americans don’t do the same thing regarding slurs made against Caucasians and Jews? Many African Americans support Jackson and Sharpton, despite their “Hymie town” and “Diamond Merchant comments, respectively. A major New York rabbi who would have been involved in an equivalent incident regarding African-Americans (still waiting for that to happen) would have been immediately shunned.

If you want a much larger-scale sporting event example, after questionable, and possibly anti-Jewish, comments were attributed in an article to some Knicks players, events transpired that lead to MANY African-Americans (and others, I suppose) at the Garden to engage in a chant, encouraging Jews to go home. The Jew-run media hushed that one up pretty well.

Caucasians don’t need to apologize for what is said by other Caucasians any more than African Americans need apologize for what is said by other African-Americans. I would therefore like to assume that your blog is a commentary on the silence with which racial slurs, of all colors, are met.

Optimistic hope on why no one batted an eye: Everyone, like you, was offended but also thought “what can you do, they’re idiots.”