Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against these uncertain advances must be stacked their price for black community and urban social stability. Confrontations may have radicalized blacks, but they have also deprived black children of weeks an months of schooling. The King school in Roxbury was closed down for most of November and December after rioting students repeatedly provoked police occupation of their school. New York City has never been closer to anarchy than it was during last fall's teacher strike, and white reaction to the strike seems likely to doom meaningful action in the New York legislature on the community control question. The combined...
...BLACK LEADERS are sadder, they are also wiser. The major lesson they've drawn form the last year's experience seems to be that blacks are going to have to be more resourceful in their efforts to save their children from early graves. Direct seizure of the white man's system was too simple. The emphasis now is on imagination and "alternatives" is the key word. "We can't take control of any damn system," says Holliday with quite bitterness. "It has got to be an alternative system...
...that one would wish children of their own on these dogged people. But they should know what they are doing, say to themselves over and over as they fondle the fur of their bouncey little puppy: "What I have here is (and I know it) a baby substitute...
...called Josephine, who was as big as I was, one that my father ran over by mistake while going down the driveway (we had back in New York a big house with a long driveway), and one most recently that was run over by a school bus full of children...
...know. I am more at one with their (the dogs') existence than most dog buyers I've run into. If they truly knew what they were doing, they would never have gotten the dog for many reasons similar to those because of which they presumably passed up actual children...