[–] 1Sorry_SOB [S] ago
"Thus we see, according to Jewish author Debra Schultz, why it is “extremely difficult to talk about interracial sex in the southern civil rights movement.”[xl] The White women went through sexual hell, hard enough in itself to discuss, but they also didn’t want to air atrocious Black behavior, which would tend to discredit the movement."
[–] 1Sorry_SOB [S] ago
"By the end of Freedom Summer (civil rights era), Whites and Blacks had gotten a handle on each other—a strongly negative one. Blacks viewed whites—usually Jews—as “smug, superior, [and] condescending,” and Whites labelled Blacks with such terms as “slow,” “lazy,” or “bullshitting Negroes.”[xxxix] So much for the idea that interaction reduces bigotry."
[–] 1Sorry_SOB [S] ago