Black Shabbos Goy - With Coleman Hughes
Make Colorblindness Great Again!
Some rare good news before we start: last night, Louis Herr (60) and Fernando Marmen (70), who were kidnapped from Nir Yitzhak on Oct 7, were rescued from Gaza. The unbelievable, action-movie-come-to-life operation was conducted by the IDF, Shin Bet and Israeli police in the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, and Hamas fought back hard, attacking the forces and hostages from all fronts. Thankfully, everyone made it home.
They weren’t the only of their family kidnapped. Louis was married to Clara, Fernando’s sister. Clara, another sister Gabriela, her daughter Mia, and the famous dog Bella were released in an exchange after 53 days. Welcome home.
On with the show! Writer, musician, rapper, author and podcaster
joins us this week. Sure he’s done many interviews lately, but only ours gave him a porn name (you’ll have to listen to find it though)Buy Coleman’s book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Who called Coleman a black Shabbos goy?
Why did the Jews do slavery??
Writing a book is the worst
Imposter syndrome is here to stay
NYPD! IDF! KKK! YAEL!
Holocaust and slavery shame
Don’t celebrate peak wokeness
The Young Black Conservative Who Grew Up With, and Rejects, D.E.I. - Coleman featured in the NY Times last week, gift link.
Normalize not having an opinion
Was Coleman’s mother black?
Of course we talk about Israel (it’s still Ask A Jew!) including Coleman’s recent visit, his thoughts on campus craziness, trying to understand the Middle East through American problems, and more.
How great was Coleman on Bill Maher on Friday?
Bonus: Superbowl Content
Did you watch the game last night? Are you an elder millenial who was reminded of your Limewire days when watching Usher? Did you like any commercials? What did you think about the antisemitism ones? Feelings here are….mixed, especially about the Blue Square one. This tweet sums it up though:
Best message of the night comes from Chaya Leah, presumabely right after Usher took off his shirt:
Porn names are always fun... if for some reason I were to go into porn, my porn name is not hard to figure out. It's funny that my porn name is just my actual last name- Mike Staber, pronounced (stay-bur) becomes Mike Stabber... So I got that going for me. lol
Every time I listen to your podcast, I feel right at home, I'm not Jewish but I'm definitely adjacent. My life really has been influenced by Jews, from friends to therapists to fellow musicians- I'm a classical pianist. My grandpa is 99 and will be 100 in June. He served in WW2, in the machine records unit for dday, the US Army IBM punch card machine operators. His mind is still sharp so he told me about his roll in the Normandy invasion. A few years ago he told me about his most profound experience in being part of the 2nd Army that liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, the first camp liberated by the US, the first time the US discovered what was happening to the Jews in Germany. My grandpa said he went into the camp and described the emaciated Jews still alive, barely. He said the Nazis had deserted before the US got there, but they found out the commander of the camp was hiding in the town nearby and brought him back to the camp. My grandpa saw the Jews beat the commander to death with a milk stool. The look I saw in his eyes while telling me the story was haunting. My grandpa is one of the small percentage of ww2 vets still alive today and him being able to tell me about what he saw at Ohrdruf is very important. I'm able to keep the story alive for future generations when all the vets are gone.
I get the sense that the people who should have imposter syndrome, don’t (Kendi, DiAngelo 👀)