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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (21433)	8/10/2001 5:45:24 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If you look back at pre-civil rights movement period, you will see that a moral alliance was formed between these two groups and others, centered around social injustice. The position of each of these groups was very self serving. With time the alliance was no longer beneficial (70s, 80s and 90s) for Jews and seemed to disolve over time. I don't see young Jews being so prominant in social movement circles like they were in the 50s and 60s. Jews no longer have a real issue in America, however, blacks do. Jews have become a distinct powerful political lobby in America and the World and now seem to have become one of the "them" groups. No longer part of the "we are oppressed" movement team.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (21433)	8/10/2001 6:32:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Laz, my understanding has been that the split was over strategy and the accompanying distrust. Jews have scrupulously avoided calling attention to themselves as a minority group and particularly opposed any official record keeping of who was or wasn't a Jew. They didn't want affirmative action for themselves. I think it was the mid seventies when the government started keeping racial indicators in its data bases. Before that you were supposed to report on your success with affirmative action but you couldn't keep the data in employee records, for example. About that time and the time that affirmative action, which was originally quite benign, started to morph into quotas, that's when the split occurred. Karen