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Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, eds., Black Athena Revisited (Chapel
Hill, NC, 1996); Tony Martin, The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley
Battlefront (Dover, MA, 1993).
5. Quoted in The New York Times, October 17, 1995, p. A19-
6. For The New Republic's attack on West, see Leon Wieseltier's "The Decline of
the Black Intellectual" in the issue of March 6, 1995. The cover, stark black, with red
and white print, contains the line, "Leon Wieseltier Rakes Over Cornel West."
7. Greg Tate, "Bigger's Got Back," Village Voice, October 17, 1995, pp. 27—28.
8. Cornel West, "Why I'm Marching on Washington," The New York Times,
October 14, 1995, p. 19.
9. Michael Lerner and Cornel West, "After OJ. and the Farrakhan-led Million
Man March: Is Healing Possible?" Tikkun, November/December 1995, p. 20.
10. See Norman Yetman, ed., Voices of Slavery (New York, 1970), p. 75.
11. The piece by Gates, "Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars," appeared in
The New York Times, July 20, 1992. For Ozick's contention that there is no Jewish
racism, see her "Afterward" in Paul Berman's Blacks and Jews. Dick Gregory's comment
is in The New York, Times, September 7, 1969.
12. See Murray Friedman, What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the
Black-Jewish Alliance (New York, 1995).
13. Friedman, p. 15.
14. Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers
fought for the Civil Rights Revolution (New York, 1994), pp. 50-53.
15. Eli N. Evans, The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner
(Jackson, MS, 1993), p. xxii.
16. Richard Wright, Black Boy (New York, 1945), p. 59.