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...well-known Manhattan photographer who is black but lives in a wealthy East Side neighborhood is often stopped by policemen while walking at night and asked where he is going. Another black homeowner in Scarsdale recalls the night he accidentally set off his own burglar alarm and was afraid to go outside to turn it off. "Some rookie cop might have come to check, seen this soul brother and let fly. Blam! One gone!" A black teen-ager driving an expensive car is far more likely to be halted and quizzed than his white counterpart...
...Malcolm X became a successful burglar who used two white middle-class girls as advance scouts. In 1946 he was caught and sentenced to ten years in jail. It was there, in a dramatic conversion, that he reformed his life, began copying the dictionary to improve his reading and writing, and became a disciple of Black Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad...
...gone into homes alone, unarmed, and turned on the stereo or television while she ransacked the house. She said no one ever tried to stop her. They were so "afraid of themselves," she said that they'd just lie frozen in bed thinking, "Oh my God! There's a BURGLAR in the house...
...Matty has the guts of a burglar." said Harvard coach Bob Harrison. "That is, he's not afraid to take the shot if he thinks he's got it." Harrison explained...
Aras, who was defended by a lawyer from Harvard's Community Legal Assistance Office, had been charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny and the possession of burglar tools...