Word: white
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...eased at all. Last week a special committee on racial and religious prejudice, appointed by Mayor John Lindsay and headed by former State Supreme Court Justice Bernard Botein, reported that "an appalling amount of racial prejudice?black and white?surfaced in and about the school controversy. The anti-white prejudice has a dangerous component of anti-Semitism." Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith warned that "undisguised anti-Semitism is at a crisis level in New York City schools where, unchecked by public authority, it has been building for more than two years...
...determined to use every legal means to let no one get away with any efforts to inflict pain or suffering on any Jewish person." In the current issue of Commentary, Earl Raab, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco, argues that the black-white confrontation in America raises anew "the Jewish question"?the place of Jews in a secular democratic society. "The Jewish question is alive again because the American political structure and its traditional coalitions are in naked transition," writes Raab. "The common democratic commitment trembles...
...Center for Urban Studies believes that some Jews have responded to anti-Semitism in a slightly paranoic manner?although, he adds, "we come by our paranoia honestly." By and large, Negro moderates argue that Jews have overreacted. They contend that the Negroes' real quarrel is with the racism of white society as a whole. Thus in New York the Jew is singled out as a visible symbol of oppression; but in New Orleans, the black's natural "enemy" is the Italian bourgeoisie, which predominates among ghetto store owners, and in San Francisco it is frequently the Japanese-American community...
...black-Jewish confrontation may be only a subconflict in the larger hostilities between black and white. But the significance of the problem is profound. U.S. democracy is based in part on its willingness to accommodate a wide and sometimes mettlesome variety of religious and ethnic patterns. If these two minorities, black and Jew ? each with its distinctive and essential contributions to American society ? cannot get along, then the viability of the American experiment in pluralism is thrown into doubt. Thus, the conflict takes on symbolic values far more threatening than its actual substance...
...songs like Go Down, Moses suggest, the Negro tended to identify with Judaism's struggle for freedom as portrayed in the Old Testament. Yet, like many conservative white Protestants, he was taught to scorn Jews as a people cursed by deicide. "All of us black people who lived in the neighborhood hated Jews," recalled the late Novelist Rich ard Wright, writing of his Southern boy hood in Black Boy, "not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and in Sunday school that Jews were 'Christ killers.' We black children ? seven, eight and nine years...