Stupidity Watch 1

My father was a child slave laborer for the Nazis. He was taken into custody when he was about 11 when my grandfather and great uncle were arrested for being part of the Polish Underground where, as lawyers, they had been getting fake paperwork for Jews to get out of Nazi occupied Poland. In the 1970s when I was about 10 years old I remember being with my grandfather when he received a phone call essentially from Israel. It was a strange conversation, and at the end I asked him what it was. He said that something like 92 people had identified him specifically as the lawyer that had gotten them their paperwork to get out of Poland, and they were now living in Israel or New York, and had been interviewed to figure out who had helped people escape the Holocaust. I think they were trying to offer him some status called, “Righteous Among the Nations,” or something that came with Israeli citizenship and free healthcare, and they mostly wanted to give him the acknowledgement. He politely turn...

     Dearborn sits at the confluence of Critical Race Theory and antisemitism. Dearborn is the home of Henry Ford, and has a reputation for being a supposedly White and racist city because of a long serving mayor named Orville Hubbard who served mostly during segregation. Most people think of Dearborn as a White city that didn't want to let Black people move to Dearborn. That was certainly true during segregation, and even for a few years after the Civil Rights Act of 1968 Hubbard resisted blacks moving to Dearborn. But Hubbard won 15 consecutive terms, served 36 years as mayor of Dearborn, and did a lot of good for the city, and he now goes down in the history books as just being racist, and that's about it. Historical revisionism is almost never a good thing when it is done by people with an agenda. Whether that agenda is politically partisan, or religious, or cultural, or racial. In 1968, the United States Congress passed the 2nd Civil Rights Act, from that point forwa...