Friday, August 19, 2011

Crown Heights riots 20 years later: A referendum on race

For those who are in need of a recap, this is what happened: On the evening of August 19, 1991, one of three vehicles -- part of a motorcade of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic sect -- veered onto the sidewalk and killed Gavin Cato, 7, the son of immigrants from Guyana. Gavin's cousin, Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured, and lay on the ground for 20 minutes or more as a Jewish ambulance took the driver away. Three hours later, Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hassidic Jewish Australian doctoral student, was murdered after a crowd of African-American teens reportedly shouted "Kill the Jew!"  The Grio...





The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 2



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