Mindy Stern
Nov 16, 2023

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With rising anti-semitism churning fear, and feeling "homeless" as an post-Zionist Jew, I keep thinking this is the closest I will ever get to understanding being Black in America. It's a very grounding feeling for me, gives perspective. I keep thinking about James Baldwin's 1967 essay, "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White." America will never be that dangerous for me.

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Mindy Stern
Mindy Stern

Written by Mindy Stern

Screenwriter. Essayist. Wannabe Novelist. Adoptee. www.themindystern.com

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