#tennessee
Johnson City, Tennessee, 2005
Photo:Mike Smith
It strikes a chord because it is reminiscent of a phenomenon Albert Memmi explored in his Portrait of a Jew. Memmi speaks of how often Jews speak of never being truly “aware” of antisemitism until some particularly stark incident slaps them across the face. Until that moment, they will say, antisemitism was never really a “thing” in their lives. And yet, if you press them a bit, it turns out that this overt incident was not the first – there were other incidents, perhaps many other incidents, but for whatever reason they didn’t “count”, and it doesn’t occur to them to mention them or even think about them as antisemitic incidents. So after the initial declaration that the overt incident was “the first time”, there comes the belated admission that well, I guess it wasn’t the first time, not by a long shot, and what at first might have felt like a isolated, even freakish incident, really is just bringing to the foreground a lot of baggage which had been tucked away in the background.In the initial report, Elizabeth Rutan-Ram said the foster care rejection was the first time she’d faced discrimination because she was Jewish.
— Philissa Cramer (@philissa) February 1, 2022
Actually, she was called “Jew girl” in grade school. And her husband said other kids handed him swastikas. https://t.co/7K9RhTBYYq
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Cummins Falls State Park - A photo from my hiking trip
Nikon D500 with Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC art lens
Photo taken by @photographyaeipathy