“Added Councilman Mathieu Eugene (D-Dist. 40): “We may have arrived on different ships, but now we are all in the same boat.”
That’s actually true. All the more reason why the black and Jewish tensions totally confuse me. You would think there’d be some common ground there somewhere.
Guess not. I’m also guessing....no never mind, I can’t really say what I’m thinking right now.
First, let's get something straight about the people that live in Crown Heights:
Many, if not most of the blacks in Crown Heights did not come to the United States on ships, as they are fairly recent immigrants from the Caribbean and/or Latin America. If anything, they came here on the latest jet airplanes, not slave ships.