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Black vs. Jew...
...TIME'S story on "Black vs. Jew: A Tragic Confrontation" [Jan. 31] was excellent. Both the Jews and the Negroes share a history of oppression. Both share a history of ghetto existence. But one thing was in favor of the Jew: his skin is white...
...Many Jews have forgotten what it was like living in a ghetto. The American Negro is experiencing the persecution that Hitler and Christianity inflicted on the Jew. Granted that Jews to some extent have reversed the taskmaster situation. But let it be known to one and all: Jews are ordered by the Torah to aid the Negro and all that are oppressed. Men like Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld have made it known that the war is on. To the Negro and my fellow Jews: we shall overcome...
...feel that TIME failed to articulate a fine sociological distinction between Jew and militant black that sheds light on the recent confrontation. The Jew may question the propriety of a law but recognizes its validity. Any discriminatory statute will find the Jew in the forefront of those attempting to change it. He will fight for the rights of all men, for in the refinement of democracy his rights will be better preserved. Yet, there is a firm recognition that should law itself be disrupted, his personal freedoms would be lost...
...Rather, he denies the very authority and claim to validity of present democratic legal processes. He feels that his rights will be protected only if there is a fundamental change in the societal legal order. He has passed the stage of legal protest into the sphere of revolt. The Jew, his former ally, can not and will not make such a transition and is therefore abused as a faithless lover. The militant black, on the other hand, is now viewed by the Jew as a serious threat to the hard-earned safeguards of American democracy...