Rabbi Saperstein’s Instructions to his Uncle Toms
The 1993 Saperstein Memo to Uncle Toms
The recent proofs of Jewish control over their appointed “responsible” negroes is a reminder of the infamous Saperstein Memo of 1993 which puts Jewish anti-negro ARROGANCE on full display.
The document is a threat issued by Rabbi David Saperstein in a letter faxed in 1993 to the “leaders” who were planning to invite Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan to the 30th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington.[1] Saperstein heads the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism—an organization unknown to Black people. Arrogance and entitlement saturate his demands:
A memorandum addressed to Civil Rights leaders authored by White Jewish Rabbi David Saperstein and marked “Confidential and Personal” threatened Jewish reprisals if Minister Farrakhan were allowed to speak at the 1993 March on Washington.
Though he was invited to speak at the march by its Black organizers, Minister Farrakhan was dis-invited at the last minute based on this memo. Here are excerpts from the August 13, 1993 memo:
CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL
To: Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Rev. Walter Fauntroy, Bill Lucy, Rev. Jesse Jackson, William Gibson, Rev. Ben Chavis, Lane Kirkland
From: Rabbi David Saperstein
cc: Rabbi Alexander Schindler, Lawrence Rubin
…In the past 24 hours, however, two major problems have arisen. The first is that I understand that a tentative decision was made yesterday to invite Rev. Louis Farrakhan. I do not need to tell you what a devastating blow this would be to the solidarity of the coalition supporting the March. While he participated in 1983, that was before all of the blow-up over his extreme statements generally, and his anti-Semitic statements in particular, beginning with his “Judaism is a gutter religion.”
For a decade, these problems have escalated….I thought this issue was resolved in 1988 when the decision was made not to invite him. The controversy over Rev. Farrakhan’s participation will overwhelm the entire March. The media’s obsession with such controversies, and Black-Jewish tensions particularly (around Rev. Farrakhan above all) will become the major story of the March. The substance of your talks and what the March represents will be totally drowned out.
Obviously, all of the Jewish groups, (and, I suspect, other groups) will be forced to withdraw from participation in the March….I am exceedingly disappointed, considering how closely I have worked with all of you over the years and how strongly you must have known the Jewish community would react to these decisions, that these decisions were not only made without my participation and ability to share my community’s concerns, but without even the courtesy of prior consultation. This feels like a major breach of good faith.
Please reach me at my office 202-387-2800 or my home 202-263-4375 any time that is convenient for you to discuss this further.
Saperstein clearly feels that he is within his rights to castigate his negroes, expecting no reaction other than full compliance—and apparently his negroes feel similarly. Upon receiving this memo, the properly scolded Toms immediately disinvited Farrakhan. The willingness of the Uncle Toms named in the memo to comply fully with a Jew who is completely unknown to the Black masses is extraordinary. There is no precedent for it in the relationships between any other ethnic, racial, national, or religious groups.
The Million Man March • The irony of the Saperstein episode is that just two years later Farrakhan would lead a march of two million Black men, over the strenuous objections of many such Jewish memos. In addition, several of those who received the 1993 Saperstein memo rebelliously participated in Farrakhan’s Million Man March. Chavis converted to Islam and helped organize it, Jesse spoke at it, and Mrs. King endorsed it—a crushing rebuke of both Saperstein and Jewish control.
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