European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse By Harry Ferguson up staff Wurfl of no person who Ever lived including the most venerated of saints has Ever Hern free of prejudice. Bud Hawas prejudiced against his Cousin leva Attlia and quarrelled with him. Moham mod was prejudiced against the Mer chants of Mecca and killed As Many of them As he could. Jesus Christ was prejudiced against the Money changers and drove them from the Jerusalem Temple. Prejudice Speaks All languages Vio lates All boundaries swims All seas and oceans strolls the boulevards and walk uncharted Jungle trails seeps through keyholes feels equally at Home in Palace or Hovel and can Blanket an entire City or nation like a malignant fog. But there Are two things prejudice cannot do see and think. For prejudice is Blind and is incapable of rational reasoning. The late w. C. Fields was one of the funniest men who Ever lived but for reasons he refused to explain he hated jews. He would not make a picture atone movie studio because he said the owners were jews. It was pointed outto Fields that he was wrong the own ers of the studio were in fact catholics. Fields reply is a capsule on the blindness and stubbornness of prejudice. Catholics Are the worst kind of Al he jew is the whipping boy of his tory. At some time every nation where he lived has persecuted him or discriminated against him. Anti semitism was a passenger aboard some of the first ships to come from Europe to America. Peter Stuyvesant an Earl governor of new Amsterdam was in formed that 23 dutch jews had landed. He asked permission of his government to expel this very repugnant and deceitful race lest they infect and trouble this new Colony with their customary usury and deceitful trading with Chris his demand was rejected. Anti semitism in the United state stakes the form of discrimination rather than persecution. Jews Are barred fro some clubs some resort hotels some apartment buildings. The anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith an Organiza Tion formed in 1913 to combat prejudice and discrimination sent duplicate let ters to hotels one signed with a jewish name and one with a non jewish name in 1963. Sixty of 408 resort hotel checked in Florida rejected the jewish request. In Arizona 22 of 92 hotels re fused reservations to the jew. In Cali fornia five of 55 resorts tested refuse jews. The news today is that discrimination is declining. In a recent Survey the number of anti semitic hotels in Florida has dropped from 60 to 8, in arizon from 22 to 5, in California from five to Zero. In Europe the jew has not fared Sowell. Adolf Hitler and his satellite Mani acs destroyed 6 million jews in what surely must be history s most prolonged and Savage massacre. Russia is the Birthplace of the pogrom a systematic killing of jews to inflame National Pas Sions for political purposes. This was done under the czars but the 1917 communist revolution did not end anti semitism. Both Stalin and Khrushchev were believed by most russians to be anti jewish and their lackeys behave accordingly. What about Russia today memo from up Moscow authorities indignantly deny the existence of anti semitism. But Man books arc published against Judaism. Since there is no official admission that anti semitism exists nothing is done to combat it educationally As was done be fore the War. There Are no trials of alleged anti semites no lectures or books denouncing is it possible to get to the source Fanti semitism to find out Why the jews the Anatomy of 3 -. In India religious prejudice Hoied bloody Battles Between the hindus and the moslem. Posters attack apartheid in Johannesburg wheel South african whiles Force second class Slan Doia on the three non Whites Blacks coloured and segregationists on the March in the u.s., where integration Laws have been passed in an attempt to breach the Walls of prejudice. Have carried such a heavy Burden through history not entirely but there Are clues. Most experts agree that the prejudice is not against individual jews but something the jews stand for up correspondents in the Mideast report that individual Arab does not hate individual jew. What the arabs hate is the idea of zionism the setting up of jewish state in the Arab world. Or. Samuel Tenenbaum brings it Downto specifics by telling the Story of the Small boy who came to school and announced All jews should be sent to Palestine. The teacher pointed to a jewish boy and asked would you wan Leo sent to Palestine the boy replied of no not Root of anti semitism among christians is obvious they blame the jews for the crucifixion of Christ. Rod Ney Stark and Charles y. Glock of the University of California after a Survey of religious prejudice concluded that half of the anti semitic christians in the United states were so because of the crucifixion. They found that catholics were less prone to prejudice than protes Tants and Liberal protestant sects less prone than conservative ones. One find ing of interest was that the clergy and ruling bodies of american protestant churches were inclined to oppose the idea of jewish guilt for the was largely the laymen who sup ported it. Through centuries of sorrow and persecution runs the legend of the wander ing jew. He has appeared in Man forms under Many names in Many nations according to the Story. The Core of the legend is that a jew usually called Ahasuerus reviled Christ on the Day of the crucifixion. For that he was doomed to wander the world until the Day of judgment and until that Day was denied the sur cease and peace of death. Him he is denied equal Opportunity Formwork and recreation in Many areas lie still cannot live any place in chooses. But he has shaken off the shackles of slavery he has created new nations in Africa. In the United states it least he has seen Laws passed in an breach the Walls of pro Indio but negroes still Ain t what to be and Hatcher explained principal reasons in hh8 the percen Lai r males in our country visor input to new int if Iii Civ ii r s ills alls g. Hatcher the negro mayor of Gary ind., made a speech the other Day in which he recited Anold Benediction out of the folklore of his race dear god we Ain t what we ought to be. We Uin l what we Gonna Ain t what we want to be. But thank god we Ain t what we was. That comes about As close As you can get to summing up the plight of the negro. There is still prejudice against Page 12 the stars and stripes by United press Inlet National 4 sociological study of Anil semitism by Kodny Slark and Stephen Steinberg United up the following information one fifth of americans say Nej would not vote for a a w " president regardless of ins pay or . Should Christmas carols j Sung in schools that Lune be inn an Well us protestant push three quarters of americans say yes. Kit hard g. Hatcher. % mayor of Gary ind., on u ent social attitudes in to Are u study of rewarded of sexuality he feeling. Television comic in proved Karl Marx wrong. Tum i la was 7.6 per cent. This jumped docent in 11 65. The median annual for a Nero College graduate is120. That is $110 less than the of White High school male drop White his school graduate May to earn $25 1.000 during his life Tero with five or More years May expect to earn Only Ioil to by is True that economic major Purl in discrimination n i genies. Membership in the Kun but Johnny Carson is them of the people. We Are a of observers. Its declasse ate or become now tedium. Every Man s for. Each of us is Selling a to somebody else. It is to air a living doing one an National Congress of Amert a ans has complained about trayal of indians on Tele notion pictures news Pap i magazines. Ilia Iii mint and Perpetu stereotype motifs of the i we statement said Sasin Savage treacherous in v or Hihl like produces tin Ite cts on the employ Abil be Indian and his oppor " f j968 flux klan for instance is chiefly drawn from White persons with Low incomes. They Are afraid that negroes will take away their jobs. In Many places around the world at tempts Are being Nuzle to improve the lot of the negro by passing Laws. Butin South Africa Laws Are on the books to keep him where he is segregate from Whites. This is called and it is not Only enforced by Law it is a philosophy of government. It operates at every level of society and in every conceivable situation. I Means that Black and White attend Dif Ferent schools live in different suburbs ride in different Railroad coaches an buses enter government buildings by different doors drink in different bars attend different places of entertainment Are taken to hospitals in different ambulances and Are buried in different population of South Africa is around 18 million. Of that 20 per Centre White. The remaining 80 per cent must accept a permanent second class status As Long As their cultural values and living standards do not approach the White level. There Are three classifications of non Whites Blacks col reds persons of mixed blood an asians. The rules extend Down even into the minor things of life. No benches Are provided for negro nursemaid they St on the ground while White children Playo the swings. No non White entertainer May perform before a White audience if liquor is served on the basis of apartheid is a Law called the group areas it divides the nation into a Patch work quilt of area reserved for one or the other race groups. Thus a wealthy Indian businessman cannot buy property in downtown Johannesburg. It is illegal for Whites Tenter a non White area without a permit. Blacks do not vote in White elections for parliament and therefore have Novice in choosing the legislators who pass the racial Laws. In White work is reserved for White work operation of apartheid began too years ago when the first White settlers arrived in South Africa. It Lias been stiffened Ever since. The non Whites of South Africa have never known any world but a segregated one. In the United states what is the other Side of the Coin Are negroes prejudice against Whites Are they militant or conservative the anti def aim Tion league financed a five year study by the University of California Survey re search Center. Some of the findings conventional civil rights groups Are overwhelmingly popular. Only o n e negro in 25 offered moderately consistent support for the Black mus lims. Nearly 90 per cent of the negroes questioned indicated a willingness to fight for the United states. Less than one third of the negroes questioned were strongly anti while. Negroes Are much less Ami White than Whites Are anti negro. A majority of negroes think things Are getting better. The late or. Martin Luther Kin was voted As the negro who has done most to help his race. In born without prejudice smoking prejudice is anew Are like cigarette acquired if you happen to he born in certain parts of the world you Are entering into a Sel of conditions which make it inevitable thai you will be come prejudiced Early in life. India is such a place. It is religious prejudice which has ignited some of the bloodiest Battles in from up. New Delhi communal riots Between hindus and moslem erupt almost daily in Northern India. An estimate was made in parliament recently that there have been 7,500 communal riots in the last 20 compiled from Indian news papers show that hindus and moslem have rioted 684 times since 1950. In March there were 15 riots during the hindu holi and the moslem id Festi Vals. One of the worst riots occurred in 1964 when a hair from the Beard of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir. The pakis Tan government in a protest note to India estimated the dead at 15,000."another form of prejudice in India is the caste system. Caste is still a fact of life even though it has been to inf i the stars and stripes Page
