Crown Heights

The part of the documentary we saw today was very confusing and stressful. It was the section with a Rabbi, a Reverend, and a teenage black man who was on the scene.
They were all talking about the same incident, but I was able to hear all the sides of the story. It is hard to side with either the blacks or the Jews because there were so many things involved in it.
However, I do know this: The Jewish man did not purposely kill the young black boy. It was a car accident. Incidents like this happen all the time. The group of black men that killed Yankel Rosenbaum purposely did it. They purposely killed him because he was a Jew, even though he had nothing to do with what had happened with the Jewish man and the young black boy.
Riots broke out in the black community because of the young boy’s death. But no riots broke out in the Jewish community because of Yankel Rosenbaum’s death. In the riots, many people were hurt, and there was a large amount of damage to cars and property. This is why I sympathize more with the Jews than I do the black community.
The Jewish man had to live with the guilt of accidentally killing the little boy forever, and it wasn’t his fault that he was taken away in the Jewish ambulance. He got out of the car to help the boy, and was immediately attacked by angry bystanders.
The teenager points out that Jewish people never get arrested and that the police are always bothering black people just because they are black. But, the way that he described the white man treating the black man is just how they are treating the Jewish people.