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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The show begins with a note from an announcer telling the audience | |||
that the show contains material that many will find objectionable. | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdul_Muhammad Khalid Muhammad] | |||
National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party (having been kicked | |||
out of the Nation of Islam in 1993), speaks, in Los Angeles 1994 May | |||
27 - anti-semitism is his topic. | |||
8:40: Roy Eisenstein<ref>possibly https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1362271 | |||
?</ref> recounts his experience as a soldier in Vietnam in 1967-8 (He | |||
says his 19th and 20th birthdays happened there). He was the only Jew | |||
in his platoon. Many of the other soldiers expressed anti-semitic | |||
sentiments. One night, drinking in town, Kelly (one of them) picked a | |||
fight. Eisenstein beat him up. | |||
24:50: Niles Goldstein, a rabbi, talks about God with Joe. | |||
33:00: More anti-semitism from Khalid Muhammad: he calls for their | |||
extermination. | |||
34:20: More from Roy Eisenstein in Vietnam. After beating up Kelly | |||
all the others in his platoon got along with him. | |||
41:00: Joe talks about nature programs on television, how they're all | |||
about animals killing and eating each other, asks Rabbi Goldstein what | |||
this says about god. | |||
47:20: Jack Kornfield talks about the morning of the Buddha's | |||
enlightenment, his sorrow for the suffering of others, how much of | |||
this we cause by our grasping. | |||
49:40: Rabbi Goldstein says his faith comes not so much from study but | |||
from 4 or 5 experiences of god. | |||
56:20: Jack Kornfield says that we have to accept the bad with the | |||
good, that if we resist this we suffer. | |||
58:00: Rabbi Goldstein tells Joe that he prays for god's | |||
presence, not things. 'I don't want things from god, just god.' | |||
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*An anti-Semitic and racist speech by former NOI spokesman Khalid Muhammad: Comparing the Holocaust to African history. Why kill the women and babies? "Kill them again." | *An anti-Semitic and racist speech by former NOI spokesman Khalid Muhammad: Comparing the Holocaust to African history. Why kill the women and babies? "Kill them again." | ||
*A guy named Eisenstein talks about being Jewish in the US military and being confronted by racist soldiers. Jew as a six syllable word. A friendship between two 'steins. Antisemitic comments lead to a fight in a soldiers' bar. | *A guy named Eisenstein talks about being Jewish in the US military and being confronted by racist soldiers. Jew as a six syllable word. A friendship between two 'steins. Antisemitic comments lead to a fight in a soldiers' bar. | ||
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*Kornfield on suffering. | *Kornfield on suffering. | ||
*Rabbi conversation: believing because of a handful of experiences. Theism as an irrational belief. God compared to unrequited love in poetry. If humans need god, does that imply god. | *Rabbi conversation: believing because of a handful of experiences. Theism as an irrational belief. God compared to unrequited love in poetry. If humans need god, does that imply god. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Doris Dub (Tosca)}} | {{Doris Dub (Tosca)}} [5:18] | ||
== Additional Credits == | == Additional Credits == | ||
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* The original broadcast was prefaced with the statement "The following program contains material many will find objectionable. We urge you to listen to the entire show before making any judgments." | * The original broadcast was prefaced with the statement "The following program contains material many will find objectionable. We urge you to listen to the entire show before making any judgments." | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Roy Eisenstein]] | [[Category:Roy Eisenstein]] |