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Word: children (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important for ghetto children to understand and respect the police, it is just as essential that we whom adults are fond of calling "leaders of tomorrow" also gain insight into the fact that policemen are human beings. I think I get the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...ghetto, when a man in uniform comes to the door he is not selling tickets to a ball; he has come to take your, home, your job, your possessions, or your children. It is the innumerable writs of execution that the sheriff's office has served over many years that are killing people today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...know what it means to see the prostitutes and pimps operate (because it's an easy means of income), illegitimate babies born (many of which die), and to see the children swim in the gullies and play with rats because there is no other place for them to play, and to come home for the evening meal with flies for the main course of the supper. Blacks are continuously and sadistically being attacked by the dogs of the White police department and beaten on the sidewalks in front of their own homes by clubs from the White hands of National...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

...welfare agent keeps a constant check on whether the Black father is coing home nights. This splits the Black family just as it's been split since the late 1500's and early 1600's. So it seems that "Whitie" is a chief symbol of success while little Black children are being robbed of a strong Black male figure to look up to. Destroying the Black man's image in his home and community has not been enough for "Whitie." Now his White Vietnam war is jeopardizing the Black man's total existence. "Mass Black Genocide" is what...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

...Knight rides a black horse, wears all black and is bad," "You're black balled from groups," "You're wicked an devil because you're blackhearted." "You wear black to funerals and white to weddings," "You can tell a good guy because he wears a white hat," little Black children see a cleanser on TV that cleans all black dirt and grime like a white tornado and they see the tooth decay villain dressed in black (causing the teeth of kids like them to hurt) and they see a toothpaste agent all in white destroying the nasty ugly tooth decay...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

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