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04/23/2008: "Racial tension between Blacks and Jews in US"

Nearly 17 years after riots tore Crown Heights apart, the recent beating of a black college student by Jewish assailants has exposed rising tensions between blacks and Jews in my neighborhood.

Cops and city officials have quietly gone on high alert, worried that another riot could be in the works.

Nowhere in the city will you find more devout religious people than in Crown Heights, yet it has come to this - shortly after Easter and the Pope's visit, and in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days.

Can't we all just get along?

[ No, we can't all just get along: we want our own cultures, and our own identities, so we can find a consensus that works for who we are genetically. ]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/04/23/2008-04-23_tribal_tension_in_crown_heights_keeps_ne.html?123