Word: detroit
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Another ghetto school that so far seems to have escaped real strife is Detroit's St. Martin de Porres High School.* The reason may be that its tough-talking Negro principal, Joseph Dulin, 33, believes in confronting students before they confront him. "Damn you, nigger," he exploded at a student recently. "You stole them gloves. Now I'm gonna give you ten minutes to get them back to me." Eight minutes passed. Then the petrified freshman was back, sheepishly handing over the gloves. "These people are your family, don't you know that?" Dulin lectured...
Tugging on Ripple. In a Catholic-run inner city high school that has gone from 55% to 85% black enrollment since the Detroit archdiocese reorganized its schools two years ago, Dulin maintains order by playing head of the "family" with such authority that the 32 teachers and 515 students all call him "Daddy." If he sometimes has to sound more like an angry stepfather than a soul brother to make a point, that is all part of his plan. As he told diocese officials at the time of his hiring, "I want to be the H.N.I.C. That means the Head...
...which Dulin uses to chastise errant students. This fall, for example, he publicly raked over some football players for "tugging on ripple" (cheap wine). Unorthodox in style and cyclonic in energy, the principal is often at odds with his superiors, as when he called off school the day the Detroit Tigers won the World Series last year. "Let me be the judge of when days off are relevant," says Dulin. "I might want to give them holidays on the days when Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were killed...
...identified with the merchant image that Negroes frequently use anti-Semitic epithets in referring to ghetto businessmen who are unmistakably not Jewish. A Negro will frequently refer to his "Jew landlord" even though the man's name may be O'Reilly, Karwolski or Santangelo. In black areas of Detroit, white storekeepers are often called "Goldberg," even though many shops are owned by Iraqis and Syrians. And a Cadillac, even if it is owned by a wealthy Negro, is still known as a "Jew canoe...
Their attitudes and actions are political in the way that the white middle class is political every time it turns on a TV set to watch a Chicago or a Detroit, and says to itself, "I wouldn't react so harshly myself, but, after all, they were provoked." It is precisely the secret delight in the violence of others, combined with the moral vision of a sophisticated lynch mob, which makes a sham of liberal tolerance in America. The fact that by the day of the Faculty meeting, SDS had gathered something like 1400 signatures on its petition, suggests that...