Do you want fries with that hate??

 Twenty years ago, I was talking about French fries with the Sysco salesman who was even older and wiser than I. I asked him, "Gaylon, why do people use crinkle cut fries? I can't tell any difference in taste. I don't recall a customer ever asking, 'Do you have crinkle cut fries?" Gaylon laughed and responded, "They use crinkle cut fries because their father used crinkle cut fries. Their father used them because his father used them. 

I asked Gaylon that question because we used crinkle cut fries and when I asked the owner why, he didn't know why, other than we had always used them and he didn't want to change.

Why am I writing about this? Because the crinkle cut fries are a metaphor for much of what is going on in the world today. Palestinians are killing Jews because their parents killed Jews. The people in the Middle East are fighting each other because they have always fought each other. This is what they do. It does no good to tell them how much better life would be with peace, you can't show them the stupidity of their actions and how it follows a historical precedent. People don't want to admit that they are wrong, and they are damn sure not going to admit that their mother was wrong.

These idiot college students who are protesting and taking over buildings don't have a clue as to why they are doing this. They hate Jews but can't tell you why. They only know that their grandparents protested and demonstrated when they were in college in the 1960's and they are going to do the same thing. Time to cue up Hank Williams Jr. singing "Family Tradition".

In the civil rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's. Jews sided with the blacks and supported their cause. Jews marched with them and helped fund the movement. Blacks have repaid the Jews for their efforts by hating and harming them. I know black people who have never met a Jew, can't define what a Jew is, and cannot explain why they hate them. They just know that they hate them.

If you don't believe that there is a problem between blacks and Jews, you either aren't paying attention or you are a reporter for a major network or even PBS. "Reporter" is a misnomer and has no relationship to the term "reporter" that was used in my ninth-grade journalism class taught by Norma Barbon Lobato at Pierce Junior High. Television networks don't cover the blacks hating Jews story because it is a no-win situation with both advertisers and viewers. The prejudice held by blacks against Jews is the "elephant in the room" that no one wants to talk about.

If you look around the United States today, you can see the same attitudes and prejudices about Jews that infected Germany in the 1920's and 1930's. It wasn't all about what Hitler did. He took an idea that a lot of Germans had and/or agreed with and made it work for him. Why didn't normal Germans speak up? Because they were afraid of the mob mentality. That is the same mentality that is showing itself today at our college campuses and in large cities across the nation.

The guy with the home-made flame thrower who injured eight people while setting his own shirt and vest afire the other day is a perfect example of this. He is from Egypt. He overstayed his visa in this country. Why did he want to attack old Jewish people? Because his father fought the Jews, his grandfather fought the Jews........... 

Can we get some original thought here? College students should not be allowed to protest against Israel without having visited Auschwitz. "Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it." I have worked with young people for years and trust me, they don't know shit about history. 

In 1945, after visiting a German concentration camp, Gen. Eisenhower had these words for the press.  “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Ike must have had a vision of college campuses in the United States in the 21st Century.

If "ignorance is bliss", this is the happiest generation in history. Do they want fries with that?