Mr. Galamison is a supporter of school decentralization in New York City (a/k/a community control, discussed with Albert Shanker on Firing Line #131) who believes that black anti-Semitism "has been exaggerated all out of proportion to what actually does exist, and, strangely enough, [the charges have] been very well timed ... to disrupt the motion toward school decentralization"--one of the villains, in his view, being Albert Shanker. Mr. Perlmutter strongly disagrees, in a frequently heated but informative exchange: "This question of the timing. Suddenly it's almost as if Mr. Shanker had sat down with the Jewish organizations and determined that this is the moment when this conspiracy must come to bear on New York ... The fact of the matter is that the larger Jewish organizations ... have from time to time endorsed decentralization."