St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-11-29
ANTI-SEMITISM AND
THE NEGRO
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fact hate the Jews almost as much
as the Southern masters" do the
Negro.
Of course there are thousands OF
thinking Negroes and whites who
do not fall for this hatred, who
see beyond the smoke screen Of
bigotry, but we are speaking OF
the average man who knows
only that he pays his money to
Jewish merchants, that his wife IS
a chambermaid for Jews. And
Harlem. has it's "black Hitlers,"
some of them merely soap-box
crackpots, others, shrewd and
clever, trying to get what they
can out of the anti-Semitic racket.
And if some of the people listen
to these dupes and racketeers, one
can hardly blame them just as
the average white in the South is
easily taken in by the chauvinistic
anti-Negro movements.
Then, too, the Negro and the
Jew are the two most oppressed
minorities in America, and when
the underdog doesn't think, he
often takes great delight in jump
ing on another underdog :. both
of them trying to get out from
under the pile by fighting each
other! When the colored man join9
the anti-Jew crusade, he may think
for the moment that he will enjoy
"eoual terms" with those who
raised the cry but when the
pack turns on him-as it always
does-he finds out how wrong ne
is. The same goes for the Jew who
goes in for white chauvinism and
Negro-baiting.
If Fascism comes to America -.
and this will be decidedly more
than a remote possibility if a re-
dictionary is elected in 1910, or If
the war scare produces a blackout
of civil liberties! . the Negro
and the Jew will be the first vic
tins, with the Catholics falling
under the axe later the XXX.
directs it's attack against Negroes,
Jews, and Catholics. Most Amerl-
cans are anti-Fascist. The misery
and horror of Germany and Franco
Spain has shocked us, for we are
a liberal people, who value our lib
erty and democracy highly: Fas-
cism will have a hard time estab-
fishing itself in America, but the
people may be fooled - Fascist
touches some weak and
tender spots people may be
tricked into accepting Fascism.
But if a working union of Fascism's
intended victims, the Negro and
the Jew, could be formed, this
would be the nucleus around which
millions of American liberals and
anti Fascists would rally. Such
unity would be a definite guarantee
that at can't happen here" This
unity is of the utmost Importance,
and it is up to the Jew to make the
first step-tO understand not only
his own problem, but also the pO-
sitiOn of the Negro.
The position of the Negro in
land of the free-is
but little better than the status of
the Jew in Nazi Germany. The
Jews in America, having much
more opportunity and freedom than
the Negro-must offer a helping
hand to the Negro. We must put
into practice a basic democratic
ideal-all men are created equal.
Unless you believe in equality
without exception-you are sup
porting Hitler's insane theory of
race superiority. Once you make
an exception, then one can also
argue that Jews, Catholic, Negroes,
fat men, tall men, etc., are inferior.
There is no room for fence-sitting,
for any "ifs" or "buts" :. given
the same opportunities and en-
vironment, science has proved that
all people are equal. You either
accept equality as fact, or you