One can only hope that the black community shares the opinion of the "several people who have worked closely with Public Enemy" and who evaluate Chuck D. as being in "over his head" as a social spokesman ("Rap--The Power and the Controversy," by Robert Hilburn).
As Jewish children, my generation was constantly taught to work hard for racial equality, to fight racism and to support the black struggle. This is why, in 1966, we risked our necks weekly to travel by bus from Columbia University to 137th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem to tutor ghetto kids who needed help in school, and why we marched in the streets of Washington, D.C., and this is why Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, two Jewish boys from the North, sacrificed their young lives together with their black friend, James Chaney, as part of the never-ending struggle against a white redneck racist mentality in the Deep South at that time.
