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...School, 20 students demonstrated outside the placement office while recruiters from a New York law firm talked with students inside. The demonstrators said the firm--Milban, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--helped oppress black people in South Africa by representing Chase Manhattan Bank, which has investments in South African industry...
...hypocritical of Rhody McCoy to expect the Jew to be more noble because of the persecution he faced but not to expect the same of the black man. And how conciliatory of him to state that black anti-Semitism is just following the mainstream of white antiSemitism...
Political Sociologist Leonard Fein, 34, is a Jewish intellectual who is associate director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. Black Educator Rhody McCoy, 46, is administrator of New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district. Last week they met at the offices of TIME to discuss their concern about the deteriorating relationship between the ethnic communities to which they belong. Excerpts from their talk...
...McCoy: That's a pretty frightening concept, isn't it? But I'm not sure that's so prevalent. I would suggest that black people are still enslaved in one way or another, and I don't think they're really so ready to find scapegoats as to find reasons to blame it on the total American scene. It's an anti-white attitude period. To me, it eventually all goes back to economics. Jewish people say, "Well, I've been discriminated against, I was a second-class citizen...
...McCoy: In a very sophisticated way, I can say there is some education that has got to be done. When I look at it realistically, I am not so sure. I think we can sit around a table and iron out all the differences, but when you go to put that into practice nothing ever comes out of it in terms of moving to get people out of this kind of slavery. The other day I talked with a Jew who impressed upon me that he grew up on the Lower East Side. It was a ghetto when he went...