{"id":46905,"date":"2016-05-09T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46905"},"modified":"2016-05-09T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:48:37","slug":"how-my-jewish-and-black-grandmothers-found-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46905","title":{"rendered":"How My Jewish and Black Grandmothers Found Bernie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\/2016\/04\/76607\/how-my-jewish-and-black-grandmothers-found-bernie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How My Jewish and Black Grandmothers Found Bernie<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jewschool: Progressive Jews &amp; Views<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Salmon<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\/2016\/04\/76607\/how-my-jewish-and-black-grandmothers-found-bernie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jewschool.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_7326.jpg?resize=850%2C638&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Photo above: Jason Salmon (center) and members of <a href=\"http:\/\/jfrej.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jews for Racial and Economic Justice<\/a> (JFREJ) at an action in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> for police accountability. Photo courtesy JFREJ.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Both of my grandmothers, one a Black woman and the other an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashkenazi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Ashkenazi Jewish<\/a> woman, recently became ardent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Sanders\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> supporters. They don\u2019t articulate their passion like most of the younger supporters by saying, \u201cI feel the Bern,\u201d but they realize that in order for their grandchildren to reap the benefits of their hard work and contributions to society, whether social or economic, systemic change must happen. They grasp that they can\u2019t subscribe to the status quo any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of the older generation who came from marginalized groups, my grandmothers are weighted down by the past and the oppression they experienced first-hand, while living through the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Great Depression<\/a> and segregated America. We are all, to some extent, prisoners of America\u2019s past, but they feel its impact in ways I cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\/2016\/04\/76607\/how-my-jewish-and-black-grandmothers-found-bernie\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How My Jewish and Black Grandmothers Found Bernie Jewschool: Progressive Jews &amp; Views 2016-04-30 Jason Salmon Photo above: Jason Salmon (center) and members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) at an action in New York City for police accountability. Photo courtesy JFREJ. Both of my grandmothers, one a Black woman and the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3601,8,26,820,20],"tags":[23745,23744,23676,23675],"class_list":["post-46905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","category-usa","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-jason-salmon","tag-jewschool","tag-jewschool-progressive-jews-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46907,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905\/revisions\/46907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}