To Whoopi Goldberg

I think I get what you were saying about the Holocaust. And I think that this partially comes from the difficulty if you're black and there is racism, that no one can mistake you for being black. But if you understand the seriousness of what was happening in a land, Germany, that was so homogeneous, you'd understand how much racism they felt towards people who were "not that much different" in appearance. If a person could hide that they were Jewish it was seen as an escape from horror. And do you realize how much Jewish people have had to go through? Black people and Jewish people living amongst white people have shared much of the same journey, and pain. Please see the movie "Julia" starring Jane Fonda, which displays so much of what I am talking about here, since Fonda plays Lillian Hellman who was a Jewish writer of the 1930s and 40s, daring an underground mission in Germany. A record I was just reading about a lady who was a spy during this time working against Hitler says that because there were so few blacks in Europe it was not considered a huge problem regarding Nazis, but where Nazis found blacks they were against them no more, but no less than the Jews. We have to assume based on this account that they rounded them up and killed them  And we ARE seeing a resurgence of racism and white supremacy as the next generation from yours and mine (I'm same age as you) advances and that generation that seems to not have learned anything from those before them and  wants to repeat history. But the seriousness of white supremacy is a red flag for all non-white people and that certainly will include Jews no matter how well they seem to blend in, bc white supremacy has a way of including them too. And you are hearing this from a white lady, bc some of us do care. You and I were born the year Rosa Parks refused to sit on the back of the bus. I've seen this journey and hearted this journey all these years and it is discouraging to see how racism doesn't want to go away. But I will remain hopeful as I hope you will too. It always occurs to me that a person has to be brave just to be black.