Members of the North Texas coalition of African Americans and Jewish Americans (BLEWS) reacted with profound sadness at the passing of their co-founder, Kenneth Glaser.
“I am deeply shocked and saddened,” said Michael Williams, the owner of a North Texas-based construction company.
“Ken did not recognize cultural and ethnic differences,” said Williams, a former NBA star. “He believed that people should be judged by the depths of their souls.”
Ken Parker, who sat on the board at Temple Shalom in North Dallas said that called his fellow board member a “courageous visionary.”
“There was little that Ken would not do for other people, “ said Parker, a retired computer industry executive and company owner who with his wife, Judy, has been a member of BLEWS since its founding eight years ago.
North Texas Civil Rights leader, Reverend Peter Johnson, who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called Ken Glaser “ a trusted friend and a warrior for Human Rights.”
“During his life Ken Glaser enhanced the valuable alliance between Jewish and Bkack Americans,” Johnson said.
“ Like Dr. King and so many others he lived beyond himself. History will remember him for centuries to come.”
Ken Glaser, Anita Weinstein and Joseph Green-Bishop founded BLEWS eight years ago. It has grown to more than 50 members.
“Ken was an exceptional human-being, ” said Yolanda Frazier-Gills, the founder of a Dallas-based accounting firm. “We will miss him, but we will always feel his magnificent presence.”
