Your recent editorial ”Chicago takes another bum rap” is unbelievable. You berate Eugene Kennedy for telling it like it is regarding anti-Semitism in Chicago in an article written for the New York Times. You accuse him of
”civic self-hatred.” This mentality of ”my country right or wrong” is the most dangerous kind.
You conclude that it was wrong for Kennedy to point out that anti-Semitism exists in Chicago by your demonstration that it is worse in New York. Will that help solve the problem? You cite Jesse Jackson`s perceived silence as understandable because he ”rows cautiously in this city`s troubled ethnic waters.” Do you prefer to bury the truth under ”civic pride” until we have another Germany? At least you finally admit that there is a problem by pointing out that ”Chicago has a number of concerned leaders-blacks, Jews and others-who have been holding meetings and stepping forth to say,
`Enough`.”
The media regales us daily with the problems that exist in nations all over the world, as well as in other states in this country. In case you hadn`t noticed, we are one world today. Your ”civic pride” in this instance is ridiculous.
