Kushner's Identity

in an interview about Lincoln Kushner said...

"I think I used the lessons of being Jewish in a small Southern town during the civil rights era, and sort of transferred them. It took some time, but I learned many lessons about how to claim an identity that was an uncomfortable identity for people, and not throw a lot of yourself to the dispossessed, or dispossess an identity because it was despised culturally. The problem was with the culture and not with oneself or one’s group. So I used those lessons in coming out of the closet." This remind's me of Kafka's character George when he was talking about his difficulties relating to and accepting his Jewish identity.  He grew up in a time were his religion was not well accepted which must have made it even harder for him to accept it himself