Letters: Feb. 7, 1969

Black vs. Jew

Sir: TIME'S story on "Black vs. Jew: A Tragic Confrontation" [Jan. 31] was excellent. Both the Jews and the Negroes share a history of oppression. Both share a history of ghetto existence. But one thing was in favor of the Jew: his skin is white.

Many Jews have forgotten what it was like living in a ghetto. The American Negro is experiencing the persecution that Hitler and Christianity inflicted on the Jew. Granted that Jews to some extent have reversed the taskmaster situation. But let it be known to one and...

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