"Many blacks believe that Jews participated in civil rights out of their own immediate and self-defined needs and that their activism had little to do with Jewishness. That activism of the past, they say, tended to be both condescending and controlling. Never a relationship of equals, they assert, Jews sat on the boards of black organizations and held power in black institutions but never allowed for the reverse. They gave money to civil rights organizations and demanded the right to make decisions by virtue of the power of their purses. Moreover, they alledge, Jews today try to cash in on that assistance. They have ex post facto attached a price tag to the historic alliance and expect blacks, out of gratitude for services rendered, to censure voices within the black community." 

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