![]() ![]() What’s worse is there’re blacks, still alive, who lived through the times of lynching, Jim Crow laws and open racism who remain silent in the face of it. Most racist assaults are committed by blacks. I recall my cousin’s and my being chased out of Fishtown and Grays Ferry, two predominantly Irish Philadelphia neighborhoods, in the 1940s, not stopping until we reached a predominantly black North or South Philly neighborhood. Tuskegee Institute records show that between the years 18, 3,437 blacks and 1,293 whites were lynched. The late South African economist William Hutt, in his 1964 book, “The Economics of the Colour Bar,” said that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims of injustices and oppression “can often be observed to be inflicting not dissimilar injustices upon other races.” Born in 1936, I’ve lived through some of our openly racist history, which has included racist insults, beatings and lynchings. ![]() With all that happened recently at the Wisconsin State Fair, it’s time to re-read Walter E Williams’ column from a while back titled “America’s New Racists”. ![]()
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