Blacks and Jews: affinity and confrontation

Jews and Blacks share a common minority status in U.S., but with a difference. By the time they became a minority in the west, Jews had an ancient religious and cultural tradition behind them. Their deep sense of identity enabled them to maintain their integrity across centuries of defamation, discrimination and persecution.. Blacks, on the other hand were uprooted from their culture, and because of their status as slaves were forced into isolation, cut off from their roots and at the mercy of their White masters