You are horrified. How can it be that you have so misjudged your neighbors? They are bigots, prejudiced people who might someday turn on you. After all, while the KKK started as an anti-black organization, it is now anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and anti-foreign as well. You cannot stay. You sell your business and move to Chicago.
There, you go to work for the Jewish Community Relations Committee of the Jewish United Federation. There can be no other work so important for you as trying to combat anti-Semitism by helping other people understand who Jews are and what they care about. You plunge tirelessly and passionately into this mission — as though your life depended on it. In a sense, it really does.
When you retire, leaders from the Jewish community are
joined by prominent non-Jews at a dinner paying tribute to you.
You are very grateful for the honors bestowed upon you, but,
as you tell them in your speech: The job is far from over. It
seems we always have lots of people who like to hate other
people. You and I still have a huge task to accomplish.
Until
you die, you continue your crusade, helping Chicago and other
cities improve relations among their citizens.
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