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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Dec. 13, 1968
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Black Attitude Toward Jews
By JACK SIEGEL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
The situation in Philadelphia
is no less tense than elsewhere
and equal in potential explosive
ness. While anti-Semitism among
blacks has not focussed around
a school issue, anti-Semitic atti
tudes exist and are openly ex-
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pressed. According to Father
Washington, an Episcopal Mini
ster of the Church of the Advo
cate, “This is due to a general
feeling of black men that the
white man should get off his
back." Father Washington is be
loved in the black community
and respected by the white: man
of God, with gentleness of tone
and manner, yet with the fire of
old testament eyes revealing the
hidden passion for his people. He
participates in a sensitivity pro
gram called Wellsprings. It is
ecumenical and is supposed ro
reach out to whites, particular
ly, Jews, and to blacks alike. Yet
at a recent meeting in a syna
gogue in Elkins Park, a suburb
of Philadelphia, the turnout was
almost all white, all Jewish. But
the real contact, says Father
Washington, between black and
Jews begins within the commun
ity. This is where the Jew is
most visible. And where the re
sentment among the blacks
begins. “Yet,” says Father Wash
ington, “the Jew should feel dif
ferently towards the black com
munity.” Presumably he means
from the rest of the white peo
ple. It is almost as though, des
pite the dislike of Jew, more is
expected of him.
The general resentment among
Blacks take's many forms. The
American system has overpower
ed the small man and has be
come a world of business chains
and conglomerates. And the
small entrepeneur among the
Blacks can’t make it. On the
other hand he has seen, accord
ing to Father Washington, “the
Pop and Mom store” among
Jews. He has seen how the Jew
has made it. And the Black man
resents his not being able to make
it as the Jew did. He feels enor
mous resentment against all
those who came to this country
later than he did, and made it.
Father Washington lives in
North Philadelphia in a modest
private house attached to his
church. He pointed through the
window at the houses around
him. “The Black man,” he said,
“resents people who make money
in his community and who do
not live in it.” Among such peo
ple are the store owners who
leave for their home after their
working day is done. And home
is in a faraway community. In
cluded in this category are ab
sentee landlords. And most of
these people are Jewish. “It is
easy to see the Jewish stores,”
says Father Washington. “On a
Jewish holiday they are closed.
Even stores we didn’t know were
Jewish owned, reveal religion on
such holidays.”
But even the Kerner report, it
was pointed out to Father Wash
ington, said that only 37 percent
of the businesses in the black
community were Jewish owned.
What about the other 63 percent?
“It is perhaps easier to hate the
Jews,” he admitted. But he laid
the blame on the "pre-conditions
motivated by other whites.”
What about the black man who
earned his money in downtown
Philadelphia and then brought it
back to his own community?
Wasn’t that like taking money
out of the black community?
Father Washington didn’t see it
that way. What he saw was black
anger at discrimination and
blocking of black efforts. Father
Washington, a family man, spoke
of two sons. He said he gave
them an allowance and they did
what they wanted with the mon
ey. “Because they are coming into
their manhood.” He didn’t agree
with the charge that, if the
white community gave similar
handouts to the black, it oould be
a kind of paternalism. No, he
said, his people have earned this
by their efforts over the years
in building the country.
But according to Jimmy Les
ter, a black “grass roots cat” the
Jew is on the front line of of
fense. A comparatively young
man with a black beard he thinks
is grey, Lester as he prefers to be
called, is a leader of young Afro-
Americans of South Philadelphia.
His office is a store on a corner
and his “congregation” is com
posed of gangs coming from dif
ferent turfs in the black areas.
A meeting was held with Lester
in Lew Tendler’s restaurant, sur
rounded by photos on the walls of
the greats of gone by years in
sports and amusement. Lester is
a militant, an activist, who says
he knows what’s going on all
over Philadelphia in the black
community. The black cat, as he
calls the young Negro, is “a mean
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