Black Boy and Tension

I think that the main reason Wright felt it was in his cultural heritage to hate Jews was that they were more white than they were black. Jewish people were hated by both the whites and the blacks. The blacks hated them because most Jews have lighter skin while the whites hated them because they were different in culture and, although not as much as the blacks, they did have physical differences. Wright, however, cannot understand why his culture hates Jews, only that they do. In this way he is sort of brainwashed into hating Jews. Later on in life, though, he realized that Jews were just as hated by whites as blacks were.