JEWISH MONEY, BLACK CANDIDATES

Jake Tapper, in the Weekly Standard, destroys the arguments that lays the defeat of Hilliard and McKinney at the hands of "outside Jewish money." As Tapper reports, the Congressional Black Caucas spearheaded efforts to preserve the availability of out-of-district and out-of-state financing. The reason is that Black candidates on the whole, raise a higher proportion of their campaign funds from out-of-state than other candidates, and wanted to preserve access to liberal donors based in New York and L.A. And who might these liberal donors be? Many of them Jews of course, who donate in amounts staggeringly disproportionate to their numbers. The fact is that despite all the hype about a breakdown of black-Jewish relations, the non-Blacks most commited to electing Black representatives are Jews. The most reliable political allies for Black politicians remain Jews. Pragmatic Black leaders realize this - the Congressional Black Caucus certaintly realizes this. The only ones who don't are left-wing Jews, driven by guilt, who perversely consider only the most hostile Black leaders to be "authentic." What would they rather prefer - that Jews donate to Black candidates who are coalition-builders that will help move forward progressive policies or that Jews cease donating to Black candidates all together?