A God in Ruins - Leon Uris [179]
“We hear you,” was the response.
“We have been driven to the wall time and time again throughout our tragic history in this nation. We are in pain!”
“Pain!”
“We are in agony! We still await our walk in the sun!”
“You tell us, Reverend!”
“Slowly, slowly, always too slowly we have crawled the crawl, feeding on crumbs of this wealthygate society. We yet await our walk into the sun!”
“Hallelujah!”
“Tonight!” Amos cried.
“Tonight!” was responded.
“We will play the role given us by Yahweh to be full Americans. We will set aside the injustices for the moment, and we will be Americans first! We who have suffered the terror of lynchings and dogs and nightsticks and hate-filled policemen…we who suffered all this say: we will not be used as monsters to bring down another American community!”
“Amen!”
“Do not let the forces of evil in and out of our community let us be used to do unto another what has been done to us! No matter what our personal experiences with Jews, we just set them aside, for Yahweh has commanded us to save our brothers!”
Silence swept over them.
“We who have been denied the right of full citizenship will not be used to deny that right to others. Let no black man stain himself with the blood of a Jew, because, if the carnage is not stopped, the black man and woman will become the next target. America must exist with all its little communities intact, or it will not exist at all. We must now set our own grievances aside because tonight we are Americans!”
Amos turned away from the bank of microphones into the embrace of his wife and children.
“You said the right thing, Daddy,” his daughter told him.
“The hate is killing us,” Amos whispered.
Milwaukee was quiet. The skinheads of Milwaukee looked time and again for police on the streets. There were none. They grew bolder. A call went out on their website for an immediate gathering.
Sixty bald heads swathed in black leather and adorned with swastikas marched toward the Beth El Synagogue singing one of the good old blackshirt songs.
When Jewish blood
is dripping from our daggers…
Breaking News Breaking News Breaking News
“This is Charlotte Cassidy, CBS, Memphis. Southern Grand Dragon Potter Wesley has called for a four-state convergence of the Klan at Memphis to parade at daybreak. Mr. Wesley! Sir! May I have a few words with you?”
“No.”
“How many klaverns do you think can make it to Memphis by daylight?”
“What did you hear?” he growled.
“Upward of a thousand Klansmen.”
“I won’t dispute that, and while we’re at it, let me tell you something. CBS is just another Jew network.”
“I understand that some of your people will be carrying weapons—”
“This is a peaceful march. The KKK does not believe in violence against niggers or kikes. Now, if some folks want to bring along a weapon to defend themselves, ain’t much I can do about that.”
“The KKK show of force,” Charlotte said, “will not be disturbed as long as it remains undestructive, says the chief of police. However, a survey of college campuses in the vicinity indicates that the Klan will run head-on into growing ranks of students.”
Breaking News Breaking News Breaking News
San Francisco.
Eric Cardinal Mueller, a dean and often spokesßman, took his seat as the cameras honed in on him and the commentator spoke, softly giving the priest’s background.
“It is the never-ending mission of the Church to find truth and speak truth even to the point of admitting Church wrongdoing in the past. No church can survive on lies. Since World War Two our foundations have been rocked by the passive role of the Vatican during the Holocaust. In this search for truth, we are now investigating our role in the Spanish Inquisition.
“Only a half century ago Jewish citizens of Germany cried out in the night for their neighbors to help them. As they slammed the door in Jewish faces, the gates of Auschwitz were opened.
“A Kristallnacht is shaping up in the streets of our cities and in our countryside. In the end we have to earn our keep as Christians.
“We are still haunted by the Holocaust. The Holocaust