Apparent Jewish Manipulation of Richard Wright’s BLACK BOY

The book BLACK BOY by Richard Wright presents a strange collection of six anti-Jewish children’s rhymes and chants that the text claims were recited by 7-9 year old Black children to taunt Jews. But these alleged children’s rhymes appear nowhere else in Black or religious literature.

That children would be able or interested in racist rhyming at this level of rancor exists in no one’s memory but Richard Wright’s. It is far more likely and believable that Wright’s publishers and agents used Wright as a Black literary messenger to establish in writing that the roots of “negro anti-Semitism” were—not in Jewish slave trading or economic exploitation—but in Christianity.

His “Christ killer” quote (p. 70) has been reprinted endlessly by Jews as “proof” that there is an intrinsic hatred of Jews in Black culture. If anything, Christianity has deceptively created an affinity among Blacks for all things Jewish. See Richard Wright, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 70-71.