It has been observed that while anti-black racism charges its object with inferiority, anti-Semitism charges its object with iniquity. The racist believes that blacks are incapable of running anything by themselves. The anti-Semite believes (in one popular bit of folklore) that thirteen rabbis rule the world.
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (b. 1950), U.S. author, educator. “Backlash?” New Yorker (May 17, 1993).
