Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
As a point of interest, I believe that it is now generally held that the original Jews were in fact very dark skinned and indeed the bloke they nailed up was also similarly pigmented.

Let's just cite this for now: https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac2...0001~!786641!0. That the Smithsonian, Tricky.

So it's a very fine line whether her thoughts were racist or anti semitic or both. Can you be prejudiced against a black person because of their religion, but still not be racist in so doing? Take the example of American black people who follow Islam for comparison - do they suffer from race hate or religious hate, or both.

This leads on to an intriguing philosophical question of whether a black person can be racist towards another black person? Was, for instance the Rwandan civil war between Hutu and Tutsi a race war? One of the causes was cited as being related to "how African are you"

Anyway I digress from the specific to the general, so I will await feedback for deviation, but I do find it an interesting direction of thought.
Interesting though it may be...it doesn’t seem to clarify how the contents of Abbott’s letter were ‘anti Semitic’.