CM Krishnan questions panel on Black Jewish and African diaspora community data
CM Krishnan asks whether any data exists on hate against Black Jewish communities and people from the African diaspora in his Harlem district. Both panelists offer to follow up with specific data, with Gage noting African and African American Muslim communities are a large portion of CAIR's constituents.
I'm curious to know as well,
I'm trying to figure out how to state this.
What I'm curious to know is, has any of your data surrounded, for the Jewish community, the
black Jewish community and any hate reporting, because in my district, in District 9 in Harlem, we do have a Jewish community that is black.
And in addition to care, anything
dealing with like the, I mean, we have like a whole little Africa community that involves all kinds of folks from the African diaspora.
And I'm just wondering, has there been any information as it relates to people of,
I don't want to just say African-American descent because they've been categorized like that if they don't have their yarmulke on or kufi on or something like that.
Yeah, no, so I personally don't have that information available right now, but we're more than happy to follow up with your office and provide answers to any of these questions.
I will say this, you know, we understand.
That we go back to the underreporting of it all, right?
So, and what data is available to look back to.
So I'll happily get that information for you.
Yeah, I'm also happy to get that information and send it at a later time, but I will say that the African and African-American Muslim communities are a large majority of our constituents and groups that we, yeah, are very important that we work with often.
Thank you.
Thank you for your testimony.
Thank you.