The only Negro candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles told an audience of Jewish community leaders here that any “Negro leader who is silent on black anti-Semitism is not serving his people or the rest of society.”
City Councilman Thomas Bradley declared, “The black anti-Semite does not represent the views of the majority of the American black people who cherish human equality and repudiate black racism and all forms of racism.” He said he would not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form and would not appoint men “tainted” with this evil.” Former Judge Isaac Pecht, who chaired the meeting, said that Mr. Bradley’s views on the subject were solicited because of growing concern in the Jewish community over manifestations of anti-Semitism among Negroes.
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