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Crime certainly played a major part in the flight from urban areas, though it wasn't uniquely antisemitic nor limited to Jews. That amongst racial/ethnic groups antisemitism is highest amongst blacks is well established in years of surveys. That incidents like Crown Heights and Ocean Hill-Brownsville were antisemitic in nature is clear, as is antisemitic vandalism and violence today. It's also clear that this is a topic which simply won't be addressed. By black organizations, the media, or the government.
From Julius Lester's poetry, then a black stateion talk show host, now a Jewish convert college professor, in the Brownsville days.
Hey, Jew boy with that yarmulke on your head,
You pale faced Jew boy-I wish you were dead
I can see you Jew boy-no you can't hide
I got a scoop on you-yeh, you gonna die
I'm sick of your stuff; every time I run 'round
You pushin' my head deeper into the ground;
I'm sick of hearing about your suffering in Germany,
I'm sick about your escape from tyranny;
I'm sick of seeing in everything I do
About the murder of six million Jews;
Hitler's reign lasted for only fifteen years--
For that period of time you shed crocodile tears.
My suffering lasted for over 400 years Jew boy,
And the white man only let me play with his toys.Guess you know, Jew boy, there's only one reason you made it--
You had a clean white face, clolorless and faded.
At least it rhymes. Fair to say along with the overt antisemitism there's simple hatred of whites at the core of the hatred.
Not quite. Wouldn't even give the ignoramus who wrote it that much credit. He also needs a brush-up lesson in history. Hitler's reign lasted only a bit more than twelve years (January 1933 to April 1945).
Also an appalling ignorance of history, mistakenly believing that Jewish suffering and persecution was limited to the Holocaust, when in fact that was merely the most severe episode of such in several millenia of persecution and suffering. Also, Julius Lester can’t have been over 40 at the time he wrote that poem, and he claimed to have lived and suffered for more than 400 years. Interesting that he later converted.
As I recall, Lester said atthe time :”We have a right to name our oppressor.” Well Mr. Lester, so do we! Quid pro quo..