The Film And Book Plugged By Kyrie Irving-- "From Hebrews To Negroes, Wake Up Black America." AKA, "From Fruits to Nuts." A Commentary.
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The Film And Book Plugged By Kyrie Irving-- "From Hebrews To Negroes, Wake Up Black America." AKA, "From Fruits to Nuts." A Commentary.
Below is a Sporting News article which provides an overview and source links which are background for wading through the content of the documentary and book in question. (Included in the article are also links to Rolling Stone and other publications)
As of this morning, Irving has only apologized for offending people, and has issued ass-covering statements ghost-written by his representatives in which he paints himself as victim of a slander, claiming he is not an anti-semite and that the label is unjustified. Incredibly, he claims no malign intent, that he only tweeted the documentary, saying "I didn't make the documentary." One might ask if this is the same as the proverbial "I didn't know the gun was loaded" murder defense. Or, "I just fired the gun, I didn't make the gun."
There is a common expression used these days to describe anti-semitic lies. "Tropes," is the word they use now. Themes, repeated slogans, pieces of propaganda, you know, "tropes." And with this nice little word, which is easy to remember and just rolls off the tongue, you have a euphemism which is just so "handy-dandy" in sanitizing and mainstreaming the 800 year old biggest of all historical lies, called the "Blood libel." This lie has been the source of untold massacres, pogroms, persecution, discrimination, and as of now, one Holocaust which killed more than six million within a period of seven years. (A fact which Irving's documentary denies) A lie which now has been rebirthed by a cult, QAnon, which stands at the center of the culture war policy of one of two American political parties, thanks to that criminal felon and former President, a vicious anti-semite himself.
Right smack in the middle of this book and documentary is the notorious Okhrana forgery (Russian Secret Police) called "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion." This became the Bible of 20th Century anti-semitism and was incorporated into Hitler's Nazi ideology in his book, "Mein Kampf." And integral to this Jewish conspiracy theory of history is the "Blood libel," the history of which I outlined in Part 1 of my series on QAnon.
The book which is the basis of the documentary includes fabricated quotes from Hitler claiming blacks are the real Jews, the real chosen people whose history was stolen from them by the evil whites pretending to be Jews. This fake history was famously promoted by the openly anti-semitic Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation Of Islam in their publication, "The Final Call," and a book titled "The Secret History Of Blacks And Jews."
When Kanye West claimed he couldn't possibly be an anti-semite because as a black man, that he is semitic too, this fake history is likely his source. The book and documentary are widely circulated among black conspirophiles through extremist "Black Israelite" charismatic churches which have pushed this, and which asserts that those imposters claiming to be Jews ran the institution of African slavery to suppress their true heritage of being "The Chosen People." When you've read about anti-semitic beatings in New York and elsewhere by black men, you will hear the media narrative that these are just sick people who were offended by the dress, appearance and customs of the Orthodox Jews. In truth, they are religious-based and racially motivated, incited by actual churches and ministers, and the pattern is that the violence comes from their congregants.
Kyrie Irving claims to be an "Omnist," which is a pseudo-religion popular among brain-dead celebrities which claims to believe in all religions. Most of it's advocates will in all likelihood anmounce their conversion to Buddhism by next year, then to something else the year after that. An honest assessment of those who promote this are that they simply manufacture a fake persona to hide the fact that they are narcissists for whom the welfare of others means less than nothing. They want to gain followers and be popular, so they put on a mask to be all things to all people. For many of these types, coming out as Pan-sexual Omnists is nothing more than their public audition to be interviewed by Gwynneth Paltrow's magazine, Goop, or some other vacuous self-help influencer.
I don't know Irving (or Kanye for that matter) except for what he says and does publicly. He is an anti-vax fanatic who sabotaged his Brooklyn Nets team throughout the pandemic because he couldn't play home games in New York. He would have put all those he encountered in danger. He has also promoted the "flat Earth" theory, causing confusion and disorientation of many of his young fans who now argue with their teachers in science class. And now, emboldened by Kanye and Elon Musk, he has become a public spokesman for Russia's anti-semitic Czars and Adolph Hitler's Nazis.
I, like many people love Basketball. I played as a kid, watch it on TV, and never miss the opportunity to mention that in it's 20th Century American version, it was invented and popularized by Jewish men, who hung the first peach baskets at Jewish YMHA's throughout America, who then went on to create the NBA. Because of its history, and the fact that Basketball eventually became the majority domain of African American players, there has been a subtext of black/Jewish antagonism which underlies owner/player labor relations historically, even though the sport and its scale has evolved globally. This has operated under the surface, but was used by outfits like Nation of Islam to characterize pro-sports in general as the continuation of the master/slave relationship. For many decades this reality bore a great deal of truth because of the unfair manner in which the players were treated. This goes back to the days when the Jewish promoter Abe Saperstein founded the comic basketball troupe "The Harlem Globetrotters," which was characterized by 1960's black nationalists as the "Steppin' Fetchits" of pro sports.
If anyone has raised the question of how did Kyrie Irving, a certifiable nut, become Vice-President of the NBA Players association, the union which represents all NBA players, some of whom are now Billionaires in a multi-billion dollar sport, one has to consider this background of the origins of black anti-semitism, previously miniscule but now growing thanks to the cult of social media influencers. This also extends into the entertainment industry, which has been characterized by the same circles as "Jewish controlled."
So, like many current long simmering situations of hatred and bigotry in the US, these old political, religious, and social conflicts have been weaponized and set loose by the phantasmagoric psycho-Presidency of Donald Trump. Old cult beliefs, racially motivated conspiracy theories, witch-doctor type of anti-science medical voodoo, and plain old violent vigilantism directed against the "scapegoats dejeur," brings us to the point where the beast of anti-semitism is reawakening in an altered form. It is merging with the superstition and ignorance based anti-science movement and potentially violent cults in the context of the pandemic. It is, as I wrote in Part 1, a virtual replay of the 14th Century Plague era, where civilization lost rationality and reason.
Up until recently, real hard core Nazi-style anti-semitism in America has been the domain of white Christian nationalist and pseudo-Islamist cults. Now, it is being adopted and propagated by some newcomer evangelical/religious and QAnon influenced black celebrities with millions of followers and notoriety, many of whom are openly affiliated with Trump and MAGA. This is a kind of insurgency which is being steered by the MAGA leadership to splinter the Democratic Party, and cut into the historic support for Democratic policies by blacks which has operated since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. This is why, for example, Trump deployed Jared Kushner to persuade Kanye to run for President, despite his being completely unqualified and mentally ill. Kanye joined a cultish "pro-life" evangelical church and was wanting to be a preacher himself at the time his marriage was breaking up, due to his anti-science driven refusal to maintain his medication regimen. Trump wanted to use a very sick man to divide the Democratic vote in 2020. Period.
Likewise Trump throws his weight behind the literally brain-damaged Herschel Walker, who has no idea where he is or what he is doing, because he has a black face. While traveling the country speaking, Trump always has the same two black people standing on the grandstand near him, holding signs which say "Blacks For Trump," who like Walker appear to not even know where they are. And of course, there are a number of "deeply religious" Pentacostal Ministers and other black charismatics who for the right price are willing to jump aboard Trump's white supremacist bandwagon in the game of "play for pay," channeling the famous Rev. Ike and the cult of "Prosperity Gospel."
Because of the extreme political and social conditions and the galvanizing of the radicals in the GOP, aided and abetted now by the Musk fascist takeover of Twitter, the new anti-semitism is more dangerous and difficult to defend against than a "dirty bomb," an "ABC" weapon carried in a backpack. It is lethal, difficult to track, and once activated spreads with the winds. To fight it, you need to track and apprehend the planners, the ringleaders, and the propagandists. People like Kyrie, Kanye, are dupes, cannon fodder who are being used and likely only half aware of what they are doing. They latch onto garbage and lies as if making a statement to assert their independence, freedom, autonomy, with very little or no concept of the consequences until they are suspended and lose their contracts. Then they apologize without recanting.
Freedom of speech and religion is not license to incite hatred which leads to violence. The threat of violence IS violence. There is no credible argument that proves hate speech and bigotry will not lead to violence. Those claiming otherwise are the worst kinds of liars, totally unworthy of a shred of tolerance or respect.
So, to summarize, things just don't work anymore, because too many people is crazy. Got all that?
