The first time someone threw a penny at me, I was, oh, 7 or 8. I was a student at Lakeview Elementary School in Mahopac, N.Y. I didn’t understand what the gesture meant, even when someone snickered and referred to me as a “cheap Jew.” Um, huh? What did being Jewish have to do with thriftiness? I was confused.
As the years passed, I’d get comments from time to time. I was cheap. Chanukah sucked. Little things that really didn’t bother me too much. Then, as a high school senior, a classmate wrote the word JEW all over my yearbook. He probably scribbled it 30 times, in tiny blue pen …
JEW
JEW
JEW
JEW
JEW
JEW
I laughed. Because that’s what you do at that age. You laugh. But there was something there, and had long been something there. A good number of people in my little hometown saw Jews differently. We were known to be greedy, money grubbing, shifty, untrustworthy. You never turned your back on a Jew. You never let a Jew hold your wallet. Just as my best friend (an African-American kid from down the street) was one of the “good blacks,” I was probably one of the “good Jews.” But, just as he was still black, I was still Jewish. You felt it. It was there.
I haven’t thought much of that in many moons, but it returned to my cranium earlier today, when I saw the Twitter posting that I’ve pasted above. It was fired off via the Trump campaign, and features Hillary Clinton in front of money, with MOST CORRUPT CANDIDATE EVER! in a Jewish star.
In a Jewish star.
Donald Trump will tell you this was accidental. It wasn’t. I promise you—it wasn’t. There are 1,000,000 shapes in the world. He could have used a circle (actually, under intense backlash he later changed it to a red circle), a square, a rectangle, an octagon. He could have used anything. But the Jewish star says something to his base, and it is this: I am one of you. I feel like you do. I am not them.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. You may hate Hillary Clinton. You may abhor Hillary Clinton. But Donald Trump is not Hillary Clinton.
He’s fascism.
Trump is a fascist pig. And the Dutch blow the Jews out if the water with how disgustingly cheap a human can be.
NBC has reported that image appeared previously on a Racist site.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-s-star-david-tweet-about-hillary-clinton-posted-n603161
You have to wonder where Trump gets his staff from.
If he hires such idiots to run his campaign what kind of people would he bring in if he ever became President.
Wah the poor little Jew boy. Must be so tough having your people run the world’s banks and media.Get a life kike
Wah the poor little Jew boy. Must be so tough having your people run the world’s banks and media.Get a life loser