Nathan Glazer (in a contrivedly and distractingly polite way) and Joseph Epstein (in a forthright way) offered the view that James Baldwin as an intellect began to deteriorate around 1963 if not earlier. Glazer reviewing one of his last essay collections offered "one grasps for an explanation...", while Epstein said "the voice grew more insistent, finally killing the artist in James Baldwin as his essays near the end of his life degenerated into mere rant.." That small merchants are Jews or Koreans or East Indians is of no consequence to anyone except to the degree which their unassimilated quality leaves them unfamiliar with American manners and makes transactions less agreeable than they would be otherwise. Well, of no consequence to an ordinary person. That someone else has the talent and spunk to build a going concern bothers some people.
I didn't know, until Dov Fischer at the American Spectator wrote about it, that Jewish sites in west Los Angeles were particularly targeted in the recent vandalism there. I did know already that the Black Lives Matter organization has been heavily anti-Semitic and pro-"Palestinian" since its inception.
It doesn't make any sense to hate someone who runs a business in your neighborhood, providing a service the neighborhood needs or wants. I was very sad reading stories from black business owners in Minneapolis, Detroit, New York, and so on, who lost everything to the rioters.
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Nathan Glazer (in a contrivedly and distractingly polite way) and Joseph Epstein (in a forthright way) offered the view that James Baldwin as an intellect began to deteriorate around 1963 if not earlier. Glazer reviewing one of his last essay collections offered "one grasps for an explanation...", while Epstein said "the voice grew more insistent, finally killing the artist in James Baldwin as his essays near the end of his life degenerated into mere rant.." That small merchants are Jews or Koreans or East Indians is of no consequence to anyone except to the degree which their unassimilated quality leaves them unfamiliar with American manners and makes transactions less agreeable than they would be otherwise. Well, of no consequence to an ordinary person. That someone else has the talent and spunk to build a going concern bothers some people.
I didn't know, until Dov Fischer at the American Spectator wrote about it, that Jewish sites in west Los Angeles were particularly targeted in the recent vandalism there. I did know already that the Black Lives Matter organization has been heavily anti-Semitic and pro-"Palestinian" since its inception.
It doesn't make any sense to hate someone who runs a business in your neighborhood, providing a service the neighborhood needs or wants. I was very sad reading stories from black business owners in Minneapolis, Detroit, New York, and so on, who lost everything to the rioters.
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