He says:"The ultimate hope for a genuine black-white dialogue in this country lies in the recognition that the driven European serf merely created another serf here, and created him on the basis of color. No one can deny that that Jew was a party to this, but it is senseless to assert that this was because of his Jewishness. One can be disappointed in the Jew if one is romantic enough--for not having learned from history; but if people did learn from history, history would be very different."
Using “Jews” as a collective when referring to Eastern Europeans is offensive and ignores the ethnic diversity of the Jewish experience. It was only after the holocaust that being Jewish became equated predominantly with Eastern Europeans for obvious reason.
Our history though is much richer then what happened to people who escaped the Pale of Settlement to North America.
More info about the ethnic origins of Eastern European Jews https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543