I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
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People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
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