[Siamese Princess]

There were racial fights going on in Newark when my dad was a kid and Jersey City where my mom was a kid. This is NOTHING NEW. They shut down the high school for nearly a week when my aunt was there due to racial violence and that was in 1970.

In Newark and Irvington, there is bad feeling and occasional brawls between American blacks and West Indians.

[Clemenza]

Hard to believe, but Irvington and East Orange used to be considered a "step up" from Newark.

Doesn't surprise me about the tensions between West Indians and American blacks. There was a major brawl at the high school near my parents current home in Boca Raton between the Haitians and American Blacks.