dime - my pleasure, it's the least I can do for all the interesting reading that you, and others on this board, have provided me.
beantownbubba wrote:
I can't speak for your JAP friends but i'm guessing u may have missed the point there, slip.
Maybe bubba, the glaringly obvious has often eluded my detection. I can't remember my classmates and I, at St. Marys' ever getting all revved up just 'coz we heard that this actor, or that hot comic was Catholic, though. In fact, I don't recall ever much discussing peoples' religion as it applied to their accomplishment. The exception was JFK, who we as Catholics revered. We would probably not have even known this tidbit, but for its political ramifications.
So, MY point was that you never hear people going around saying "Didja know that Muddy Waters was a Methodist?" or; "I heard that Sally Field was a Quaker." It only seemed to matter to Jewish people. I wondered about it for awhile, but chalked it up as a quirk of society. Maybe the persecution that they feel is their birthright, causes them to high five, whenever they hear that one of their flock has done good. It's the same principle, I guess, that some black people adhere to. Never in their lives were they shackled, but still they feel the sting of oppression. I meet less folks like that as time goes by. Anyway, tribes and religions have been persecuted since time immemorial. Genocide has existed on every continent (even right here in the good ole U.S. of A.). Once upon a time they fed Christians to the lions. There used to be a wonderful, advanced Mayan civilization that was all but obliterated by greed. Idi Amin wreaked havok, but much of Africa is topsy turvy with wholesale slaughter going on right now today. That the the Jewish people could feel MORE persecuted than any other poor schmoes of society just seemed odd to me. If indeed that was why they got their jollies uncovering hidden Jew stars. I never could make heads or tails of the Jewish people, so I ended up marrying one of those J.A.P. girls. Some 30 odd years later, I still haven't gotten to the crux of it.