- Letter by Daphna Ziman

Hi,

I have to tell you of an experience I had last night that was so

anti semitic and frightening:

Last night I was honored by Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, for my

work with Children Uniting nations with African American children

who are living out of home care. I have dedicated my life to

saving these children from abuse, neglect and a life of crime. We

created ‘adoption day’ and “Day of the child” determined to

recruit caring adults to be mentors and life savers for our at

risk children in the inner cities.

The mayor was present and City council member Bernard parks,

assemblyman Mike Davis, Senator Mark Ridely Thomas etc. I was

introduced as a children advocate and a leader in the Jewish

community. I began my speech by talking about how I woke up in

the morning and listened to Hillary clinton’s speech, in the

spirit of Dr. King from Memphis, that moved me so deeply. I

expressed to the crowd how grateful I was to listen to Sen.

McCain apologize to the community for mistakes he has made in the

past. I acknowledged Sen. Obama’s speech from the campaign trail

about Dr. King’s mentorship.

..

After I spoke and thanked the fraternity and their members, Rev.

Eric Lee, pres. and CEO of Southern Christian Leadership

Conference of greater Los Angeles, was introduced as the key note

speaker.

He began  his speech by thanking Jesus for Obama, who is going to

be the leader of the world. He continued by referring to other

leaders Like Dr.

King,being that this was the moment of celebrating Dr. King’s

spirit on the anniversary of his death, and Malcolm X.

It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right

at me and started talking about the African American children who

are suffering because of the JEWS that have featured them as

rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then

corrected himself to say “What other kind of Rabbis are there,

but JEWS”. He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he

would like to bring the AA community and the Jewish community

together. ” NO, NO, NO,!!!!” he shouted into the crowd, we are

not going to come together. “The Jews have made money on us in

the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are

economically enslaving us”

He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates

have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack

Obama, because now is the time to show them.(meaning the Jews).

He continued to speak about ‘ White supremecy’ vs the talents and

visionaries in the core of African Americans. He demeaned being

given freedom, by saying “To what?” to a country that kills women

and children.

I could no longer be polite and sit in front of the crowd, so I

walked out.

Members of the fraternity ran after me as did my staff, I was not

able to contain my tears and I cried.

I cried for me and my family, who have tried so hard to help the

African American community, because we adopted children from the

same realities and wanted to give back to other children and

people. We have been completely color blind, for us it was only

helping those children in need. I cried for our beloved country

and the division that Barack Obama has caused with his Rev.

Wright opening the gates to ‘hate’ against the Jews and whites. I

grew up so looking at America as the land of Freedom. I was

honored to receive my citizenship accompanied by members of the

Kennedy family. Now, I’m afraid for Israel because Barack sat

there for 20 years listening and not standing up for what’s

right, why would he standup for Israel?

I cried for the Jewish community who are so blind that they can’t

see that there’s a movement here that will destroy us.I cried

because for the first time in my life I was afraid of the future.

I cried for our world that is moving backwards and not forward.

Everyday, I see children so lost, and so deserving of hope and

love. I look into their eyes, knowing that it is their lives that

are in our hands.

I’m crying now, so I’m going to stop writing because it is so

painful.

I just had to share this experience with you,

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