Re: Have you seen this woman?
Dear Neighbours,
Look, I am not a native and English isn?t my mother tongue but words like deportation and discrimination can also be used in a positive way. When a lady is chosen instead of a gentleman because she is a woman, we call it positive discrimination.
Since I am a Dutch Jew myself and my entire family and community, back home in Amsterdam, was systematically segregated, deported, imprisoned, and exterminated in concentration camps and extermination camps, places where most people found death through slave labor, hunger, gas chambers and crematoria I fully understand what you?re talking about. As a survivor I came on my own, all alone, to New York.
Tonight we celebrate Passover. Even in those most horrific places our families gathered and baked ?matzoth? and they declared praise to God for giving them freedom.
The poor folks we are talking about are not really helped with a bowl of soup, and who cares if one of us feels good about supplying it to them. As neighbours and fellow citizens we have a responsibility to take care of those who are not able to make choices for themselves. It is just too easy that American society gets away with not helping these human beings who are lost on the streets with drugs and alcohol. The USA is the richest country on earth but s has other priorities.
The ?healthy? ones among us must help the less fortunate, it is a holy task. Saying that is positive and far from discrimination.
Dear Neighbours,
Look, I am not a native and English isn?t my mother tongue but words like deportation and discrimination can also be used in a positive way. When a lady is chosen instead of a gentleman because she is a woman, we call it positive discrimination.
Since I am a Dutch Jew myself and my entire family and community, back home in Amsterdam, was systematically segregated, deported, imprisoned, and exterminated in concentration camps and extermination camps, places where most people found death through slave labor, hunger, gas chambers and crematoria I fully understand what you?re talking about. As a survivor I came on my own, all alone, to New York.
Tonight we celebrate Passover. Even in those most horrific places our families gathered and baked ?matzoth? and they declared praise to God for giving them freedom.
The poor folks we are talking about are not really helped with a bowl of soup, and who cares if one of us feels good about supplying it to them. As neighbours and fellow citizens we have a responsibility to take care of those who are not able to make choices for themselves. It is just too easy that American society gets away with not helping these human beings who are lost on the streets with drugs and alcohol. The USA is the richest country on earth but s has other priorities.
The ?healthy? ones among us must help the less fortunate, it is a holy task. Saying that is positive and far from discrimination.
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