“It seems unlikely within this complicated structure any real and systematic cooperation can be achieved between Negroes and Jews. (This in terms of the over-all social problem and is not meant to imply that individual friendships are impossible or that they are valueless when they occur) The structure of the American commonwealth has trapped both these minorities into attitudes of perpetual hostility. They do not dare trust each other-the Jew because he feels he must climb higher on the American social ladder and has, so far as he is concerned, nothing to gain from identification with any minority even more unloved than he: while the Negro is even in the less tenable position of not trusting anyone.”
James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”, 1955.
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