Full disclosure: I am a big fan of Kosher salt, especially for keeping meat dishes from sticking to pans and it really keeps meat from drying out if you use it in a rub. If you are interested in such things, Kosher salt can be and is used in purification, banishment and exorcism rituals in many occult traditions. It also comes in nifty cylindrical cans that are easy to use and store. Thus I have about half a dozen Kosher salts in the cupboard at any one time, and have no qualms using it.

Neo-Nazis and Aztlan supporters have spent the last few years whining effeminately about kosher practices and how we all secretly are forced to eat Kosher food by the evil Jewish conspiracy (which can magically produce Kosher pork products and shellfish) and now thanks to retired barber Joe Godlewski they have an alternative:

Retired barber Joe Godlewski says he was inspired by television chefs who repeatedly recommended kosher salt in recipes.

“I said, ‘What the heck’s the matter with Christian salt?'” Godlewski said, sipping a beer in the living room of his home in unincorporated Cresaptown, a western Maryland mountain community.

By next week, his trademarked Blessed Christians Salt will be available at http://www.memphi.net, the Web site of Memphis, Tenn.-based seasonings manufacturer Ingredients Corporation of America.

It’s sea salt that’s been blessed by an Episcopal priest, ICA President Damon S. Arney said Wednesday. He said the company also hopes to market the salt through Christian bookstores and as a fundraising tool for religious groups.

Arney and Godlewski, 73, said a share of the proceeds will be donated to Christian charities, but neither would specify a percentage.

Since it’s blessed by an Episcopalian it’s really only nominally Christian. But like many anti-Kosher activists Godlewski seems to not understand exactly what Kosher salt is:

Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, kosher administrator for the Chicago Rabbinical Council, said marketing Christian salt as an alternative to kosher salt reflects, at best, ignorance about Jewish dietary laws. He said all salt is inherently kosher because it occurs naturally and requires little or no processing.

Certified kosher foods are not blessed by rabbis but examined by them to ensure that the food and its processing conform with Biblical passages regarding food preparation and consumption, Fishbane said.

He said coarse-grained kosher salt is named for the way in which it was traditionally used – to draw blood from freshly butchered meat, because Jewish law prohibits consuming blood. Chefs often favor kosher salt because it’s crunchy and easy to pinch.

The difference between Kosher salt and regular table salt is basically that Kosher salt is untreated and not processed. That’s it. No blessings go into it.

But hey, don’t think ol’ Joe is some Jew hater. The article ends with this quote:

Godlewski makes his aim clear: “There’s no anti-Semitism. I love Jesus Christ and he was a Jew.”

Right. There’s no anti-Semitism involved in Christians not wanting to use Kosher salt. Of course. Why would anyone think that at all?

Pandagon says this is another example of Episcopalian fundamentalism, not lefty Jew hatred at all.

h/t Jenn Q Public

Update: Jesse Taylor of Pandagon (who is not related to me I would point out) doesn’t understand my last “paragraph”so I’ll clarify.The Episcopalian church is a liberal denomination that has bent over backward to reach out to people like him and his pet racist harpy Amanda Marcotte. Thus they have women clergy, gay clergy, in one case Muslim clergy and have participated in many anti-Israel pro-Palestinian movements. Just like Pandagon!

Because the Episcopalian church is the American arm of the Anglican church pro-sharia Arch-bishop of Canterbury Rowan Atkinson is technically an Episcopalian. His glad handing of Jew hating Jihadis and supporting a parallel justice system to undermine Western civilization  is something you no doubt approve of and something people like Godlewski end up supporting since it ghettoizes Muslim women. I hear he doesn’t like their salt either.

That one of their clergy is involved in this anti-Semitic nonsense indicates that Godlewski himself is an Episcopalian. Since they trend socially liberal he must be one of yours.

Update: I meant Rowan Williams above. Good catch Dodiafae.

Thanks for making us look good, Kanye. Nothing helps put racism and bigotry to rest like having a famous Black man claim beating the crap out of your old lady isn’t really a big deal. Kanye West famously claimed George Bush doesn’t care about Black people because the people of the 9th ward couldn’t wade through chest deep water (my mother has commuted an hour and a half into New York from New Jersey to work everyday without a car, on a bad knee and during blizzards for 20 years, but Northeastern Black folk are a little tougher than those 9th ward pussies) but now West himself is exposed as a hater of Black folk, for claiming Chris Brown’s vicious assault on Rhianna was “just a mistake” anyone could make.

Also mistakes people make in West’s mind: child molestation, murdering your ex and getting high. You know how easy it is to accidentally rape a child, kill your wife then smoke a bong. From Reuters:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hip-hop star Kanye West trashed Radiohead and said the public should give Chris Brown “a break,” during a recent taping of VH1’s “Storytellers.”

But the comments will not make it to air when the episode premieres on the lifestyle cable network on Saturday.

[…]

During the taping, according to a Reuters reporter, West was aggrieved that Radiohead singer Thom Yorke had allegedly snubbed him backstage at the Grammys five days earlier. That hurt, West told the audience, because he idolizes the British band, and considers it one of his few creative rivals.

“So when he performed at the Grammys, I sat the f— down,” West said.

A little later, West asked the crowd, “Can’t we give Chris a break? … I know I make mistakes in life.” He was referring to R&B singer Chris Brown, who was arrested on the night of the Grammys on suspicion of beating his girlfriend Rihanna.

In the same context, West earned loud applause with his declaration: “Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing … He’s a real f—in’ person; he makes mistakes,” referring to the champion swimmer’s recent bong pipe brouhaha.

VH1 has cleaned up those comments a bit, and it also included West’s less-popular follow-up observation: “O.J. Simpson, amazing. Is he not? What he did, when he did, what he did. Was he not amazing though?”

So let’s summarize. Snubbing Kanye if you’re busy will bring Kanye, a grown man, to tears. Beating your old lady until she’s bloody, raping children, cutting off your ex-wife’s head or letting your “friend” take a picture of you getting high? Just momentary lapses in judgment my friend, nothing that would allow a person to judge the subject. Let’s give them a break!

Misogyny and the abuse of women is endemic in the Black community, in part driven by a hip-hop culture that promotes the view of people like West that sadism is a mistake that can be forgiven, and worse that the victims of rape, violence and abuse are in some way deserving of it. If West cared about Black people at all he’d want to make sure the message that the too influential rap music industry sent to the fatherless fans who emulate them is that women are equal to men and should be respected, you have to take responsibility for yourself and killing your ex or raping children is wrong.

But instead West is saying that these people should be automatically forgiven for their actions because they’re “just making mistakes.”

West doesn’t live in a Black neighborhood. He lives in a rich, mostly White one with plenty of security so he doesn’t care what kind of negative effects his drivel has on the community, nor do his peers, the White liberals who shove his nonsense down the throats of Black people. These are the same White liberals who have spent the last 30 years publishing rap and helping create the illusion that “Black” music is a monolithic sub-culture. I grew up in the era of Shalimar, Bad Brains and Ice T, when Black musicians were in all genres. There was a diversity of opinions and music and a wellspring of talent. Then MTV and Time Warner decided that they would throw their billions into pushing rap, which they turned into the special education class of the music industry and now we have famous, well respected celebrities announcing that beating up women is basically no big deal.

The Black community will never move forward until people like West are not allowed to speak for all of us and we start teaching our young men to act live civilized human beings.