the treatment of Jews in Europe is comparable to the treatment of African Americ
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the treatment of Jews in Europe is comparable to the treatment of African Americans under the Jim Crow laws. According to the textbook, the Jim Crow law passed in the late 19th century, kept African Americans, former slaves and their descendants in subordinate positions. The Jim Crow law, in essence, wanted African Americans to know their place and stay in it. The law gave White people the ultimate authority over their well being and lives. The European Jews experienced the same injustices. The most tragic being the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the state sponsored persecution and annihilation of Jews in Europe by the Nazis. The purpose of the Holocaust was to remove the Jewish people permanently from the European Continent. In Germany, the rights of the Jews gradually were restricted. Jews were prevented from voting, living outside the Jewish ghetto and from owning a business. When you look at how the African Americans and the Jewish people were treated the one common thread is severe discrimination. The African American- Jewish American relationships have received such scrutiny possible because of the tensions between the two groups have been troubled for a long time. According to Time magazine, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg notes in her book, Troubling The Water: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century states, "cooperation and conflict coexisted throughout, with tensions caused by economic clashes, ideological disagreements, Jewish racism and black anti-Semitism, as well as differences in class and the intensity of discrimination faced by each group." However, during a recent march in Greenwich Village in New York City for Black Lives Matter. Jason Salmon, a leader for Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JREJ) responded as he was lead away by police for disorderly conduct, "minority groups in this country have been pitted against each other since the beginning. Since the inception of this country. I've just had it." The author continued to say, "It is obvious that Blacks and Jews can coexist. They just need to focus on making it happen."
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There is an agreeable point in this passage that the minority groups can coexist. To the scope of this passage and the author's thoughts, i can say that minority groups can coexist to work towards integration and to kill discrimination. It's sad to see the discrimination is still prevailing in 21st century. But while thinking out of the scope of this passage, once can always have a good try to focus on direct integration of all so called races and that way racial discrimination can be curbed, as afterall forming a group itself is a division and seen as a discrimination.
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