Day: April 28, 2014

On this very special day, Holocaust remembrance Day, I simply had to speak out regarding the Clippers owner, Donald Sterling.  Having listened to his entire exchange with his girlfriend, I was even more horrified.

When confronted with his blatant hypocrisy of the hatred towards Jews in Nazi Germany, of the overt prejudice Jews have suffered, this moron was till blind to his own hatred, his own inaction stemming from a  fear of being ridiculed by his supposed “friends”.

Not only is he racist, even worse, he is a coward. He does not represent me or any Jewish person I know.

Every major Jewish organization, including the Anti Defamation League, should come out strongly condemning this bigot.  In fact, I have left a message with their DC office and hope for a response today.

So for me, on this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I honor my grandmothers family from Poland, whom all but one cousin perished at the hands of the Nazi’s simply for being Jewish, I honor them by standing up to bigotry, no matter where it originates.

Washingtonpost.com:

Blanche Porway remembers the guard tearing her from her mother’s hand as they stood in line at the Auschwitz concentration camp with hundreds of Jews and other prisoners. Her mother was led off to the gas chambers while Porway and her older sister were spared, only because the guards deemed them fit enough to work.

Porway, then 19, had already survived the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, where her father and brother had starved to death.
“My sister said, ‘I can’t take this,’ ” Porway recalled tearfully Sunday. “But I said, ‘We have to. We have to live to tell people.’ ”
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