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Show Rose (1/20/83) page 28 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R them in deliveries, and I denied I was Jewish when I got the job, but I didn't deny it the day after I got the job. It was up to them to fire me if they wanted to. Not because I felt that sinned by denying that I was Jewish, that wasn't it, it was just I ~ question of my not wantee to be what I wasn't. I'll put it dif-ferently, I wanted to be what I was. I mean, we'd been in this business of being Jewish .•• ! told you about we'd go to a Polack neighborhood and we'd have a fight, we'd go to an Italian neigh-borhood and we'd have a fight, wherever we went. When ever we went out of that Jewish community, we had a fight, period. So, that was the reason why when I went there •• $nd then I was alread old enough that I could, that was the nicest thing about it, that I could. When I came out here, I ran into isolated .•• oh, gees, know you're going to ask me to give you more and I can't do it. had isolated cases where somebody said "hey, Jew .. , or something like that, and a fight would start over it. You actually fought some people out here? Oh, yeah, sure. But, you see, I didn't have a problem wasn't a big thing to me because I could, you see, I could. see, that makes a big difference. Sure does. Do you know how important fights were to me? We'd walk along streets in west Colfax, well this was started in New York. I in New york you'd walk along the street and you'd see a pair of boxing gloves on the pavement and there'd be a guy standing ther with gloves. You just went over and picked up the gloves and pu them on. You fought that guy until he got tired or you got tire |
