Cartoon 706: Up the Racial Ladder

My how things changed...

It used to be in America from your earliest years you heard “…the Jews killed Christ”. This was not so long ago, as late as the 1970s. They were considered demonic like the Muslins and Hindu are considered in America today (by some segments). Therefore they deserved retribution because they killed Christ.

Jews were a people apart. They congregated in their own communities in the early part of the last century. However, their business enterprises ventured out of these communities. Eventually they became very wealthy as a people in America. But they were still viewed in the same class with African Americans and gypsies. They were considered a “race” apart.

History has been rewritten. It is a fact America was very anti-Jewish right up through World War II. Today we view the defeat of Germany as a moral issue with the liberation of the concentration camps. But the American mindset at the time was something different. Americans would not have willingly lifted a finger to help Jews. No American politician at the time would ever suggest such a thing. This mindset continued with Americans not raising objections over the Rosenberg trial or the McCarty attacks in the 1950s. Minorities are popular targets. The Republican Party spearheaded the Jewish attacks in America. It was the party of American “values”.

The Jews in America set about changing things once they had amassed great wealth.  The answer was simple. They must somehow join the White race. They used marketing to change the American perception. They associated being Jewish in America with having Caucasian features. They used the media to popularized this image. Blue eyed Paul Newman playing the title role in the movie “Exodus” as a Jewish military Capitan, blond haired George Peppard playing a Jewish insurgent in another movie and Gregory Peak in the movie “Gentleman’s Agreement”. America was inundated with images of Caucasian featured Jews. Today Jews are the wealthiest single sect in America and you mentally instantly conjure them as “White”. The Republican Party is no real threat, they own Wall Street.

In the world today the Caucasian featured Israelis dominate our perception of the Jewish State. These Jews are late comers primarily from Eastern Europe. They are actively distancing themselves from their Palestinian roots.

The Jews succeeded in climbing the racial ladder.