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MILTON FRIEDMAN
Black Power Extremist
— tf.S. Neo Nazi Advocates
W ASHIN GTON(—
Black Power extremists have
revealed that there is a method
in the madness of burning and
looting. Their stated intention is
to make so-called ghetto areas of
the District of Columbia and oth
er communities “Judenrein” (free
of Jews)—an aim of Hitler.
Fanatics have disrupted meet
ings in which responsible leaders,
white and black, sought to plan
a cooperative reconstruction of
the inner city. One suah meeting,
convened by D. C. authorities,
heard an extremist denounce
white merchants with the public
charge that “no one puts the
touch on the black man like the
Jews with their 300 percent in
terest.’’ A concept of Negro na
tionalism was advanced with im
plications for every city where a
Negro ghetto exists. “This land
will belong to its people . . . We
can’t live with the white man
who gyps us . . . let them go to
their suburbs . . . We drove the
moneylenders out of the temple
before and we can do it again.”
At another meeting here, the
militants took over and actually
ordered all white participants out
of the room. Advocates at “Black
ownership” proclaimed that
white-owned enterprises will be
burned again and again and
again. “Since approximately one-
half of the mercantile and prop
erty damage sustained here was
suffered by Jews, concern Is felt
by Jewish businessmen. But an
even deeper fear pervades the
whole spectrum of Jews devoted
bo integration and human equal
ity. It is apprehension lest the
Government appease Black Pow
er segregationists to the extent of
creating two nations, one white,
another black.
Jason Silverman, regional di
rector of the Anti-Defamation
League, has stated that a grave
crisis has developed in the wake
of the riots. It is his view that
Jews are dedicated to an open
society based upon integration
and brotherhood. But black fa
natics are denouncing the “Jew
stores” while white extremists
urge police state measures against
Negroes.
The concept of Negroes eon-
trolling the business life, educa
tion, housing, and other aspects
of ghetto neighborhoods has been
accepted by the Government. The
U. S. Small Business Administra
tion has announced that it will
defer “disaster area” loans in
D. C. until long-range plans are
made for an inner city acceptable
to Negroes. A master redevelop
ment plan is being drafted by
one Government-subsidized Ne
gro group, Pride, Inc., that would
give Negroes control of all busi
ness, social and political activities
in the area. Pride has demanded
that disaster loans to burned-out
merchants be suspended until the
black control plan Is completed.
Moderate Negro spokesmen,
like the Washington representa
tive of Dr. Martin Luther King’s
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, have avoided all ref
erence to Jews. But he tended to
explain the burning as a blow
against “exploitation” and a form
of “instant debt reduction.” He
said there was great “anger and
venom” among Negroes againsty
proprietors of stores that- sell ap
pliances, clothing, jewelry, etc.,
on credit. The “Blackman’s Vol
unteer Army of Liberation” does
not mince wards. The enemies of
the black people are “Zionist
Jews,” according to handbills dis
tributed here. Not all Negroes go
along with such nonsense. One
Negro businessman told an ex
tremist that “You don’t own any
thing on this street but your big
mouth.”
Federal authorities in Washing
ton are adopting policies on the
ghetto that will be reflected na
tionally. The tendency now ap
pears to attempt to oool down the
riots by accepting the premise
that Negroes can decide the fate
of white businessmen who op
erate in colored neighborhoods.
This trend is troubling to advo
cates of civil rights. They see a
danger in the increased separa
tion of the two races. The report
of the President’s Commission on
Civil Disorders voiced similar
concern. On the other hand, ad
vocates of elementary social jus
tice see merit in the Negro drive
to rid the inner city of exploita
tive merchant* who prey on the
uneducated and poor.
Charles Y. Lazarus, one of
America’s leading merchants, has
charged the businessmen with
“inexcusable callousness” toward
explosive urban problems. Ltxa-
rus, president of the American
Retail Federation, said: “Just ask
yourself how a whole generation
of corporate executives could
drive their Cadillacs through the
slums of America and not knew
that, one day, these ghetto poor
would rise to threaten both the
corporate balance sheet and the
whole fabric of American life."
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