I am writing in regard to the article “BSU calls rally ‘anti-Farrakhan'” in which BSU member Antoin Howard said “…critics did not know what the terms ‘racism’ and ‘prejudice’ meant.”

I find this interesting because most of the critics were Jewish. I think that if the Jews do not know what racism and prejudice are, then nobody does. I often hear about, and see, racism and prejudice toward Negroes. But even in South Africa, where it is currently at its worst, this racism and prejudice has not led to millions of deaths in concentration camps as it did for the Jews under Hitler and Stalin.

Blacks have never been under the hands of even one, much less two, national leaders committed to total genocide. They have never been subject to such severe racism that it bacame known around the world as “The Holocaust.” They do not have a homeland surrounded, even today, by people dedicated to the elimination of their race.

I am not Jewish, but I do not understand how anyone can look at the pictures taken of the death camps and the steps taken by Hitler and Stalin during the Holocaust, of which there are still survivors, and say that the Jewish people do not understand what racism and prejudice mean!

William Lee Crumbaugh

Junior

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