[LibWhacker]

http://www.jeffreygoldberg.net/articles/nyt/the_color_of_suspicion.php

Even civil rights leaders profile. “There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life,” Jesse Jackson said several years ago, “than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Jackson now says his quotation was “taken out of context.” The context, he said, is that violence is the inevitable byproduct of poor education and health care. But no amount of “context” matters when you fear that you are about to be mugged.

[LS]

Ok, thanks. Then this is not identical (as I thought it was) to a comment by a Jewish educator in 1994 saying that people are not threatened by gangs of youths carrying Bibles trying to evangelize them, but by "feral gangs."

Thanks all.

[LS]

“the reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals, forced to read the New Testament, but that we may set upon by gangs of feral young people.”

This was a quotation by Jewish writer David Stolinsky in 1994, and I had recalled JJ said something close.