Word: racistly
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...closer to them, Farrakhan must abandon his racist doctrine. But can he? Apart from his historical beliefs about Jews and business frustrations he believes were caused by them, he may feel a compulsion to voice slurs. The more cynical view is that he engages in bigotry because it brings him attention...
Some argue that at least with respect to whites, African Americans cannot be racist because, as a group, they lack the power to subordinate whites. Among other failings, this theory ignores nitty-gritty realities. Regardless of the relative strength of African-American and Jewish communities in New York City, the African Americans who beat Jews in Crown Heights for racially motivated reasons were, at that moment, sufficiently powerful to subordinate their victims. This theory, moreover, wrongly ignores the plain fact that African Americans -- as judges, teachers, mayors, police officers, members of Congress and army officers -- increasingly occupy positions of power...
...that I think Jews are so secure that we could never be endangered by this kind of thing. Anti-Semitism in America has never been publicly confronted or its underlying assumptions challenged. The average educated person knows much more about the fallacies in standard racist fantasies about blacks than about notions that Jews control the wealth and the media, that Zionism is colonialism, or that Jews aren't "really" an oppressed group because they are financially secure in the U.S. Because most Americans identify as Christians, and Christianity has been the major perpetrator of anti-Semitism over the past...
...deny our own racism toward blacks or Palestinians. In our frantic attempts to make it in America, we not only fixed our noses and straightened our hair and learned to talk more softly and genteelly to be acceptable to Wasp culture, but we also began to buy the racist assumptions of this society and to forget our own history of oppression. Jewish neoconservatives at Commentary magazine and Jewish neoliberals at the New Republic have led the assault on affirmative action (despite the fact that one of its greatest beneficiaries has been Jewish women); have blamed the persistence of racism...
...decision to pursue an in-depth investigation of this subject was prompted by the anti-Semitic and otherwise racist speech that Farrakhan's aide, Khallid Muhammad, gave at Kean College in New Jersey. The story was newsworthy in large part because it came just as some mainstream black groups were attempting to form a constructive alliance with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. News of the speech loosed a flash flood of reportage and commentary on the subject, and at that time we began the kind of weeks-long investigation a cover story like this one requires. At the same...