Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=26131286'>posted</a> on 08/14/2016:

Quote Originally Posted by grease lightnin View Post
My wife's grandfather was Russian Jew. His mother and father emigrated in the late teens or early 20's. He was born in Baltimore in '24. Fought in WWII and was a great man. Died in 2012.

They weren't practicing Jews, but my wife said they weren't allowed on white beaches in Maryland. I don't know when that was, but it ended at some point.

I don't think Jews have been party to much discrimination in the US during my lifetime, other than the remarks/jokes etc, but I could be wrong. Blacks are more victim to discrimination than any other race, it seems to me. At least where I have lived.
Back in the day my grandfather, who was born in 1926 and died in 2013, was a director of one of the largest motorcycle-bicycle factories in USSR. At the age 15 he ran away from home during the WW2 to join partisans to fight Nazis. Even at that age he quickly rose to the rank of Cpt. and finished war in Romania. His war achievements helped him with various promotions in the Communist party and he was very involved as far the party movement goes.

Long story short, he was always telling me stories, how he would get pressured by the party, to mute the promotion of Jews at his work place or even let go of some his top Jew workers - just because their were Jewish and they couldn't been seeing by the public as top performers. And he would always tell them back, that if they can find 5 Christian workers that could do as much work as those Jews, then he'll let them go.

Right before his death, I brought him to Santa Monica with me to show him the ocean...he pulled out his old Communist party identification card, that he always carried with him, tore it apart and tossed it to the water.