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bdents while pointing to the fact that a Jew had suggested the
bplan. As Goldberg prepared his decision. Hatchett gave an
binterview to the Village Voice, the radical-chic newspaper
bthat allowed the liberal the vicarious thrill of revolution
bwithout having to participate in the dangers of the real
bthing. Hatchett told the interviewer, Letitia Kent, that he
bhad only singled out Jews as educational castrators of Black
bchildren because they happened to comprise most of the
bteachers and supervisors. Triumphantly he added that if he
bwere attacking the Sanitation Department he would have
battacked the Italians. Miss Kent never did ask him what his
bopinion would be of an article attacking rapists that blasted
bNegroes . . .
bAfter various other comments, including the “fact” that
bthere are four million Jews in New York City (there are less
bthan two million), he concluded the interview with “I hope
byou still don’t think I’m anti-Semitic. I want to say that our
bfamily physician, dentist, and lawyer are all Jews . . .”
bThe article appeared on August 8 and the next day
bGoldberg issued his report. To JDL it was no surprise. The
bcourt Jew recommended that Hatchett be retained. In his
bletter to Hester, made public by the university, Goldberg
bstated that he had met with the controversial appointee and
b“as a result of my frank and candid talk with Mr. Hatchett, I
bbelieve he now understands the injustice and dangers inher-
bent in the kind of criticism he voiced in the article. Mr.
bHatchett strongly denies that he is anti-Semitic although the
bexpressions in the article can be so regarded.”
bIt was a Goldbergism that was so typical of the men and
bthe Jewish Establishment. Its sham was made evident im-
bmediately when Hatchett insisted that he saw nothing anti-
bSemitic in the article and that “my criticism of the New York
bCity public school system remains valid.” NYU had sought a
bway out of the threat of chaos and violence on the part of
bBlacks and radicals and Goldberg had given it to them. The
bother Jewish groups may have been satisfied but we were
bnot.
bIn August a group of fifteen members of the Jewish
bDefense League appeared at NYU and picketed the school,
b