Word: bensonhurst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From Brattle St. to Bensonhurst, racism is a curse," the marchers chanted at Tuesday's vigil. Those who spoke at the rally made it clear that they considered Commonwealth Day the latest symbol of the city's hypocrisy...
...when a Black youth was killed allegedly by a gang of white teenagers in the predominantly white Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, everyone was shocked, but no one seemed really surprised...
...Bensonhurst killing was the catalyst for a series of demonstrations which provided more sensationalist material: some Black leaders marched through Bensonhurst and a handful of white Brooklynites shouted racial epithets at them. Several days later, thousands of demonstrators marched through Brooklyn and eventually clashed with police when they were not allowed to cross the Brooklyn Bridge...
...when soft-spoken Dinkins made the appeal for a unified New York a cornerstone of his campaign, the election fell right into his hands. Dinkins did not represent the radical and highly vocal minority of New Yorkers who wanted to avenge the Bensonhurst murder...
...uncanny, the similarity between this scene and the earlier one at the party--but this was the real world. He and I, perfect strangers, could just as easily have been shouting racial epithets at each other in Bensonhurst or in the next Spike Lee movie--but, no. This was the real New York...