justin david smith Indeed. But there's that interesting tension in Jewish thought and culture that precisely because they are Chosen they must set the proper example. Unfortunately, all human beings find it easier to pay lip service to lofty principles than actually live those principles. So when Jews get enough of black and hispanic miscreancy, they too do what everyone else does. Not every Jew, of course, and not "officially," as a community, but it's merely White Flight by any other name. I don't know what the solution is, frankly. It's no good concentrating ghettos, but, as the old saying goes, you can take the man out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man. What to do? Ghettos will only perpetuate black and hispanic miscreancy. But spreading them out bears the risk of simply corrupting the wider society with their barbarism. Perhaps this "token minority" thing is really the way to go; black and hispanics can be set something of a proper example through their interactions as servants in more mainstream society? And who better than Jews, as a people who have also suffered but overcome greatly....
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