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Jul 11, 2020, 5:31 PM

Fact Checking Farrakhan: One Black Christian’s Perspective

On July 4, 2020, Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation Of Islam (NOI), delivered a 3 hour speech. After listening to Farrakhan's 3 hour diatribe, I was appalled. Not just by his bigoted rants, but by the deafening...

Jun 1, 2020, 7:35 AM

Enough Is Enough: I Can’t Breathe!

CRUPELLECHROM: (Noun) the ideology which teaches that it’s morally permissible to torture Blacks for just being Black-- merely because of the color of their skin, because Blacks are thought to be inherently inferior to Whites by possessing seven specific...

Oct 29, 2019, 7:42 PM

Confronting Anti-Semitism: What would Jesus do?

October 27, 2019 marked the one year anniversary of the October 27, 2018 mass shooting at the Tree Of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. On April 27, 2019, there was another synagogue shooting in the San Diego area. The shooting...

Oct 5, 2018, 7:39 PM

Understanding Farrakhan’s Appeal To African-Americans

In the last year, anti-Semitic rhetoric and attacks have been on the rise. Concurrently, several commentators have noted, with dismay, that the Nation Of Islam’s Minister Louis Farrakhan, as of late, appears to be getting more succor from mainstream...

Jun 17, 2018, 12:58 AM

Is Israel Really An Apartheid State?–One Black Man’s Perspective

I went to Israel for the first time in April 2018. It was an amazing trip. Israel is like one huge museum—almost everywhere you go, you are stepping into history. I had a great time, and I’d like to...

Mar 22, 2018, 10:36 AM

Was Moses’ wife a monkey?

From Jacob Jordaens' 17th century painting, Moses and His Ethiopian Wife Zipporah. (Wikimedia Commons)

To Chief Rabbi Yosef: You make Israel look bad -- own your racially insensitive remarks and apologize!

Aug 25, 2017, 12:15 PM

Trump is a thermometer, not a thermostat

“White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap-- essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most of the abrasions between Negroes and white liberals...

Feb 6, 2017, 7:32 AM

Don’t waste your breath on deniers

With Holocaust denial, as with claims that the Civil War wasn't about slaves, the key is that WE know what's true

Jan 23, 2017, 5:18 AM

Black Christian anti-Semitism: a sad irony

Hey, Movement For Black Lives: did you forget, or did you just not know? “…salvation is from the Jews.” Words of Jesus as found in John 4:22 “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism.” Dr. Martin Luther King I am...

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About Me

Patrick Dankwa John is a Black Christian attorney living and working in the Chicago area. He is the president of Chicago's Decalogue Society of Lawyers, America's oldest Jewish bar association. He is Decalogue's first Black and first Christian president. Pat believes that Christians should embrace the Jewishness of Jesus and speak up against anti-Semitism. He grew up for several years in Brooklyn, NY and completed his undergraduate education at the City College of NY in Harlem, where he majored in Urban Legal Studies and minored in Black Studies. Pat is originally from Guyana, South America, a place of great religious diversity. Guyana celebrates the major religions of Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. Guyana's first female president was Jewish--Janet Jagan (f/k/a Janet Rosenberg). The views expressed are Pat's alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Decalogue Society Of Lawyers, or any other organization.