Word: bensonhurst
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...form of racism is a much more insidious, much subtler one that would not even make headlines if its steady undercurrent had not pervaded the ethos of lower-class white Americans. The gruesome consequence of this ethos can be seen in two noteworthy instances: Howard Beach and, more recently, Bensonhurst...
...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...
...Zany. Woody Allen's final statement, in which Woody completes his last two years at N.Y.U. and settles down as a C.P.A. in Bensonhurst. "Perhaps the most important film of this or any year" -Psychology Today...