Reply #65: Not in my Jewish community [View All]

[connecticut yankee]

I grew up in an affluent, primarily Jewish community on Long Island. Blacks were referred to as "Shvartzers," or worse, and looked down upon.

I marched in Civil Rights marches and was laughed at. When I mentioned I attended a Martin Luther King speech, my mother said it was a Communist rally. Other people ridiculed me by asking if I went there to get a slave.

I did not share your experience of Jews standing up against racism. Quite the opposite.

That's one reason I became a Unitarian.