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...dawn on Election Day, the haulers began transporting voters?mostly poor blacks???to the polls. Before the people went in to vote, they were given a white card bearing the number five, Leach's line on the ballot. Once they voted, payoffs were usually made in private homes called money houses or in touring vehicles known as floating banks. At a money house next to a Baptist church, haulers pretended to be preparing for a funeral...
...shoehorned into the Afrikaner political system. A primary reason for Vorster's calling the election is to gain a popular consensus for a proposed new constitution, one that would abolish the present parliamentary system, based on the Westminster model. Instead, each racial group in the country except blacks???whites, coloreds and Asians?would have a separate communal "parliament." These bodies would in turn nominate representatives to a Council of Cabinets, which would choose an all-powerful President (presumably Vorster). The council would have eleven members?six whites, three coloreds and two Asians...
Crime is decimating communities like Harlem. Says William Lundon, a homicide detective: "It's as if there were a cancer out there, with the doctor operating every day." To ward off robberies, Harlem merchants?almost all of them blacks???often stay open 24 hours a day. But the longer they are around, the more chance there is that they will be assaulted. One all-night grocer, a genial man in his 60s who was shot...
Deprived Minority. The act strengthened the iron-fisted and arrogant rule of Ulster's Protestant majority. In many ways, Northern Ireland resembled a Southern U.S. state, like Mississippi or Alabama, where a minority?in Ireland's case, of Catholics rather than blacks???was systematically deprived of social and political justice. Catholics were herded into grimy urban ghettos like Londonderry's Bogside or Belfast's dank Falls Road. A graduation certificate from a Catholic school was usually enough to disqualify a man from a good job: in Ulster, Catholic unemployment is as much as twice the province's average. The persuasive...
...black himself, to become a part of that suffering and dancing country that he now watches wistfully from the heights of his lonely power and, armed with spiritual traveler's checks, visits surreptitiously after dark . . . The price of the liberation of the white people is the liberation of the blacks???the total liberation, in the cities, in the towns, before the law, and in the mind...
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