Jewish parents were advised today to involve themselves more deeply in efforts to improve housing, schooling and employment opportunities for Negroes “an as example to your children” and as a means of creating better rapport with them.
Ben Barkin, chairman of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission, policy-making body of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, told the annual meeting of the commissioners here that their demands for local and national initiatives to bring about equality for Negroes may provide “fringe benefits you never expected.” “You will find added rapport with your teen-age children. You will find you’re making them proud of you because they are already involved in the thick of where the action is. Most of them question the inequities of the system and are probably blaming you, their parents and leaders, for letting these injustices go on,” Mr. Barkin said.
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