Aza Y. Alam
1 min readJan 4, 2024

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Firstly, I would like to thank you for taking the time to respond in depth to some of the lines of the poem. I really appreciate that. If I may share on a personal note, the first systematic injustice I became aware of in my mid teens, was the Nazis' treatment of Jewish people and I literally cried as I identified with Jewish people so strongly (being a minority of one as a South Asian girl in a white dominant school).

I understand that due to the horrible and frequent pogroms and takeover's of Jewish people's properties, throughout Europe, it became a practical necessity to have easy to carry wealth in the form of gold... so I think some of the stereotypes about Jewish people have some truth value, simply due to the circumstances which dictated their responses as a community. To note that is not to be anti-Semitic.

It was research done by Jewish scholars in the USA, quoted by Professor Toney Martin , that proved the Jewish involvement in the Atlantic slave trade... so that again , is a fact.

JSo, with respect, I wish to say that ust because some things show Jewish people -like just about every other people on the planet have transgressed/exploited others in some way, whether as individuals or as communities, does not mean the commentator on this fact, is anti-semitic.

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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