What Malcolm X thought about the strained relationships between Blacks and Jews in " OUR democracy "

Apart from Black people who identify as lost Hebrews it is more relevant to read what Black Muslim Malcolm X thought about the strained relationship between Blacks and Jews in " OUR democracy " : To be sure , Black Muslim Malcolm X spoke harshly about Black-Jewish relations in the United States . Read " Malcolm's ambivalence toward, 196-197 , " Malcolm The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America " by Bruce Perry, 1991 : " He [ Malcolm ] suggested that Jews were the chief exploiters of America's blacks.... " He was unimpressed with the fact that many Jews were members of the NAACP ; he said it was comparable to Jesse James joining the trustees of a bank he intended to rob. The main reason Jews were in the forefront of the civil rights movement , he said, was that the more attention they focused upon ' the Negro question " the more hostility they could deflect from themselves .... On the other hand , there was justification for his criticism of Jews who fled to suburbia solely because blacks moved into their neighborhoods . " ' When there's something worth owning, the Jew's got it ', he asserted. At times he was defensive about accusations that he was anti-Jewish. ' I know I'll hear ANTI-SEMITIC from every direction, he lamented after one Jewish diatribe. ' Oh, yes. But truth is truth " . " The rich Jew symbolized the avarice that the youthful criminal Malcolm had forsworn when he had become a Muslim ascetic " .[ AUTHOR Bruce Perry ... Publishers Weekly ... " Exhaustively researched, this compelling biography is the most intimate portrait of Malcolm X to date . "]