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To: Elroy who wrote (227175)	4/16/2007 9:58:11 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I am 61 and grew up in NYC and didnt see much anti-semitism either. As a kid, there was a bit of catholic/jewish tension among the kids but other than an occasional fist fight, most folks got along pretty well. Blacks and Puerto Ricans suffered the most here and that took a long time to dissipate. Mostly tensions between irish/italians kids vs blacks and puerto ricans kids. There were some really horrific incidents in the 50, 60s and 70s. Blacks in this country have gotten it the worse. First slavery, then Jim Crow, and then the welfare state which institutionalized racism in an unholy alliance between the racists who thought blacks inferior and the liberals who thought themselves superior and thus guardians of african american welfare. Faced with that choice blacks went liberal and adopted second class citizenship over third class the racists offered. Over the past 20 years or so blacks have made real progress in the private sector. If we could lose the jacksons and sharptons and maybe thats what Obama is all about--we can solve this problem once and for all.

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