Fort Surrender: Chasidic Privilege
<p>“You seem so angry. Are you able to calm down? Can you sleep at night? Do you need meds?” That was my Chasidic uncle’s response to me trying to convince him that Black lives matter. I hung up on him. This is not about me. This is about the Chasidic Community. Its racism. Its privilege — particularly evident when it comes to its treatment by police.</p>
<p>Like all Jews, Chasidic Jews have been victims of Anti-Semitism: the expulsion from one country after another, forced ghettoization, the banishment from professions, crusades, the pogroms, blood libels, and of course, the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism routinely surfaces in contemporary America, as well; in the past year, there was the brutal stabbing in Monsey, NY, and the slaughter in a Jersey City grocery. Being victims of hate does not contradict the fact that Chasidim get away with crimes, crimes that would normally put white people in jail, and get Black people killed by Police.</p>
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