Maybe some African Americans dislike Jews because pharaoh enslaved the Israelites, and the Egyptians were Black Africans.
I also said "In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." Seriously though, the first quote was a challenge to overcome knee-jerk reaction and learn more about what we hate and why. It's also a chastisement for small-minded selfishness and how that affects those we trod upon.