The structure of the American commonwealth has trapped both these minorities into attitudes of perpetual hostility. They do not dare trust each other-the Jew because he feels he must climb higher on the American social ladder and has, so far as he is concerned, nothing to gain from identification with any minority even more unloved than he; while the Negro is in the even less tenable position of not really daring to trust anyone.
( James Baldwin )
[ Notes of a Native Son ]
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