Why You Probably Won t Have Racial Microaggressions At This Jewish Summer Camp
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Marcella White Campbell, the new director of S.F.-based Jewish diversity awareness organization Be’chol Lashon, was brought to tears as she described how it felt to watch the Capitol riots with her 15-year-old son.
“He’s Black and he’s Jewish,” she said. “And when the Capitol was swarmed on Jan. 6 … I hadn’t seen him cry since he was a child.
“He said, ‘They’re attacking everything about me, they’re attacking my entire identity,’” Campbell continued. “And I haven’t recovered from that as a parent hearing him say those things.”
Campbell was speaking to Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, when she told that story during a nearly hourlong webinar on Feb. 18. The two had a virtual conversation, along with Allison Padilla-Goodman, vice president of the ADL’s Southern Division, about the need to center Jews of color, and to continue the fight, as Greenblatt put it, to “shrug off the legacy of racism”