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Professor Cornell West '74-'73 and Michael Lerner discussed the relationship of Jews and Blacks before and animated crowd of approximately 800 last night at MIT's Kresge Auditorium...
...setting out to solve a paramount contemporary American conflict, Lerner and West take on a heavy burden. Unfortunately, both attack the problem with a hostile pessimism through which they call for socialist revolution. The workers of the world might be more equal under a socialist regime, but that does not imply material comfort and therefore it certainly fails to correspond with racial harmony...
...least Michael Lerner and Cornel West are frank in their discussions. The politicians at the Kennedy School seemed eager to head off potentially divisive questions, including ones mentioning Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. They focused on the shared history of Blacks and Jews as minorities who have experienced extreme prejudice. How far can these shared experiences be taken...
...Like Lerner and West, the representatives believed that the Black-Jewish alliance of the 60's can transcend time and political shifts. In the 60's, it was the Blacks who were balking (and rightly so) about civil rights to a government that was not particularly concerned. But over the last 30 years much has changed. One significant metamorphosis is that we now have a federal government openly and actively pursuing policies designed to benefit Blacks--and a largely white public that rejects such an agenda...
...Lerner and West, as well as the visiting congressional representatives, do not permit dissent from the liberal agenda. In particular, Lerner attempts to hold all Jews hostage to it. But growth comes from freedom in learning, not the didactic orthodoxy Lerner and West prescribed. Although they attempt to downplay their solution as final, they hold themselves as moral examplars for the rest of society. By for saking the American ethic of democracy and capitalism, the two have accomplished little in the way of solving any racial controversies in this country...