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Article: Of Blacks and Jews, film finds hurt and hope.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 18, 1998
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From where I sit it is hard to imagine, but I've heard that there are remote outposts of America -- perhaps even some where this newspaper is read -- where one can go through a whole day, even a week, and never see or hear, except on TV, a black or a Jew.
And when those windblown corners of North Dakota do see these strangers on TV, it may be Minister Louis Farrakhan on "Meet the Press" dissing the Jews.
Meanwhile here in the Bronx, the northern corner of the most multiethnic and politicized city in the world, on the subways, on the streets of Manhattan, on TV, in all-talk public radio and in the newspapers for long periods, we seem to hear and see ...