tim_howells_1000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I certainly have no clue what you are talking about, as usual. An excellent source re that conflict is Robert I. Friedman's biography of Meir Kahane (The False Prophet, pg. 91 - 95). Kahane was in the middle of the fight. The source of the conflict was indeed the fact that more and more jews were moving into inner city teaching jobs that had previously been held primarily by blacks. If you have any facts to the contrary (ha ha ha) please enlighten us. Tim Howells REPLY Tim, it's unseemly to adopt a smug attitude when you haven't any idea what you are talking about. Jews were most definitely NOT "moving into inner city teaching jobs that had previously been held primarily by blacks," for the simple fact that the main issue is that hardly ANY teaching jobs in New York City--including in the inner city, were held by blacks. This very complex situation arose in a context where Jews were the dominant force in the Board of Education and the Ford Foundation sponsored a community control experiment precisely to address the LACK of Black teachers and community input of inner city education. Many at the time consider the whole debacle as one self consciously instigated by McGeorge Bundy and the Ford Foundation, which funded some of the worst opportunists in the Black community and set in motion a conflict that pitted ultra nationalist Blacks against a largely white union whose opportunist leader exaggerated and exasperated supposed anti-Semitism in the Black community. End result--a weakening of both the union and a decimation of the community control movement--typical Ford Foundation divide and conquer policy (this was in 1968). --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.
