The reimagined #RacialDraft backstory for Jewish Captain America is as follows:
Steve Rogers was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a well-known Jewish enclave, in 1920 to poor Jewish immigrants. As a child, Steve often found himself in fights with neighborhood kids, a product of the rising antisemitism in America. But Steve was raised with a belief in moral values and that good always triumphs over evil.
When Steve attempted to get drafted into the US Army in order to go fight the Nazis in Europe, as he felt was his duty as a Jewish American, he was rejected time and again for being underweight and asthmatic.
But Dr. Abraham Erskine tapped Rogers for a special project in which he injected the frail patriot with “Super-Soldier Serum” that gave him health, strength, and agility. Dr. Erskine saw the frail Steve Rogers as the raw material needed in order to create a hero that would drive the persecutors of Jews away in fear.
So, from the clay of Steve Rogers, Captain America – the pinnacle of human ability and a super-soldier able to fight the Nazis practically single handed – was born. But Captain America isn’t just a patriotic symbol.
He was created by a brilliant Jewish scientist to punch Nazis and protect America, where his parents fled to escape antisemitism, just as millions of Jews had done in the early 1900s.
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