@Blackberry Plenty of clubs in the South didn’t allow Jews. I’m not sure which club @elbanditoroso is referring to in South Florida. 50 years ago Jews couldn’t stay at the Boca Raton Resort or be a member of the beach club there, but that’s long since changed, the Jews have practically taken over Boca Raton. Lol.
Palm Beach was very WASPy also, but last statistic I saw about fifteen years ago was 30% of the houses being sold on Palm Beach at that time were to Jews, I don’t know if that was accurate. So, I’d doubt the club there can still keep the Jews out, but maybe. Let’s see if he tells us which clubs. Just north of Palm Beach it gets very Evangelical.
I keep trying to tell Black people Jewish people really do have an inkling about what it’s like to be hated, oppressed, murdered, afraid, but so many Black people just see us as white. I don’t think of you like that at all, I always think of you as very open to listening to the experience of other people, obviously you listened to @elbanditoroso, you commented on what he wrote, but I’m talking in general. I’m not trying to compete with the Black experience, I’m only saying I can have empathy for many parts of it.
Regarding your answer, I usually refrain from saying Black people from the South are not the same as other parts of the country, because I think people will think I’m being racist. Of course, it’s not every Southern Black person is the same. Like you said at least part of it is the religion (that’s true with white people too) and also I think part of it is the history in the South and the continued inequities. I also am more on edge in the South that when I meet a Black person they are making assumptions about me. I don’t feel that way in other parts of the country.