(Jewish Group) The Women's March Doesn't Get to Decide Who the 'White Jews' Are

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Growing up a mixed-race Jewish girl in 1980s New Jersey, I know I would have found the newly announced Jewish board members of the Women’s March—scholar Yavilah McCoy, a black Orthodox Jew from a convert family; April Baskin, an ambassador for multiracial Jews; and transgender activist raised Hasidic Jew Abby Stein—a thrilling validation.

It surely would have been for my mother, the only black mom at my shul and a lapsed Catholic who dutifully made hand-grated latkes from her mother-in-law’s recipe while Jewish moms shamelessly brought in Ore-Ida. It would have been, I hope, to our temple’s music director, who could only come out by dying of AIDS. And, as the girl who couldn’t find a salon to style my frizzy, intolerably multiracial hair for my bat mitzvah, I would have known I wasn’t alone.

But when I got the email announcing the three leaders, I couldn’t enjoy the moment at all. Despite calls for unity, even leaning into the chaos, all I see is another dig by the Women’s March at those pesky Jewish feminists who happen to be white.

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Look at the appointment of McCoy, Baskin, and Stein, and it at first seems like a deft political move. Comment on white Jewish women’s absence from the line-up, and the Women’s March can respond, Why? Are you saying these aren’t real Jews? You white women were racist after all.

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[madaboutharry]

1. They are anti-semites.

There really isn't anything else to talk about. The Women's March has been corrupted and ruined. There is no way anyone can un-ring that bell.

It is a pity.

[still_one]

3. They could, but by all apperances it will not happen

[still_one]

2. Because Tmika Mallory willfully refused to disassociate herself with Louis Farrakhan, who is

anti-Jewish, anti-gay, anti-women, and a bigot, the DNC, NAACP, NARAL, and other notable women groups are removing their sponsorship from the event, along with the potential Democratic candidates such as Kamila Harris, Sherrod Brown, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kristen Gillibrand, etc. will not be attending?

"But there's no spinning it: Women's March Inc., which has organized the largest rallies and political campaigns of the young movement, is coming into 2019 dogged by controversy. Tamika Mallory, one of the group's other co-founders, has associated with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, has never completely denounced his anti-Semitism, and has been accused of holding her own conspiratorial beliefs about Jews.
As The Post's Marissa J. Lang has reported, a number of marches that never relied on Women's March Inc. for support have issued statements saying they have nothing to do with Sarsour's group. The Democratic National Committee and nearly 300 other organizations that endorsed the 2017 march are no longer affiliated with it. Few actual or potential Democratic 2020 candidates are planning to wade into the crowds.
What began as an astoundingly successful grass-roots organization has become a politically fraught one, in ways that could shape Democratic politics and the 2020 primaries.
The 2017 Women's March was a seminal event for Democrats, especially those with presidential ambitions. In speeches and memoirs, many of them have referred to the event as the beginning of a real resistance to the Trump presidency, even more than the surprisingly successful health-care rallies that took place before the inauguration."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2019/01/17/the-trailer-who-s-afraid-of-the-women-s-march/5c3f55a11b326b3b88fef0aa/?utm_term=.5196a9b60908

and this has potential divisionary issues that can affect 2020

[MosheFeingold]

4. Not sure why I found this line interesting

"And, as the girl who couldn’t find a salon to style my frizzy, intolerably multiracial hair for my bat mitzvah, I would have known I wasn’t alone."

I have moved to a very rural area, largely Apache.

There is one (1) hair cutting place that has a black stylist in a 50 mile radius.

I've had to go to her (also the first time a woman has cut my hair) because no one can handle my hardcore Jew-Fro, except her. She says I have "good hair", whatever that means. Course, black (OK, lots of grey), thick, and absurdly curly. I was referred to her because the hair cutter in the area literally never had to deal with truly curly hair after school.

I have never shaved, excepting when I was in the Army and a police man (both required it at the time), and I "bumped up" (little zit like bumps) every time I shaved, which I had to do 2X a day.