Anti-Semitic neighbor

“Why are you helping that kike?” Carl was asked by a neighbor he had known his entire life.

That was the last door the stunned canvasser knocked on during the campaign, as each one coughed up more prejudice than the one before.

Carl had grown up on that block and had known his neighbors since he had been a child, yet he was shocked at their reaction to his support for Ald. William Singer who was seeking to unseat Mayor Daley in the 1975 Democratic primary election.

Although he and his neighbors were Catholics and Singer was Jewish, he didn’t think that mattered at all. But to many people, it really did.