Midterm Source

            I am writing my midterm essay about a 1967 article written by James Baldwin in The New York Times, titled “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They Are Anti-White.” Baldwin explains why black Americans hold a disdain for Jews who have attempted to compare the discrimination they experience to the racism blacks face in America.  He further asserts that because Jews experience the economic and social privileges of other white Christian Americans and participate in discriminating against blacks, blacks view Jews as white and consequently discount their religious background.  While Baldwin convincingly captures the anger and frustration of northern urban blacks living in New York City during the late 1960s, his broad generalizations of blacks and Jews with respect to religion and race limit the scope of his argument.