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...nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will not help pay off the implement and fertilizer companies. Perhaps what concerns me the most is that a city slum dweller with an income of less than $3,000 a year becomes a prime target for the War on Poverty; but a farmer with a net income of less than $3,000 a year is part of a "coddled minority...
...argument that appeals to critics of all persuasions is that the nation needs to "reorder its priorities." As envisioned by the Urban Coalition and other responsible groups concerned with improving the lot of the Negro slum dweller, any such redefinition of national values would involve a far more vigorous effort, both moral and economic, to deal with the problems of the cities...
...desperate bid to wrest command from extremists, King declared nonviolent war to remedy the slum dweller's plight in Northern cities, promising a wave of civil disobedience, school boycotts, marches, sitdowns and sit-ins instead of fire bombs and snipers. "Mass disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force," declared King. But there were doubts about whether his S.C.L.C. could actually organize such nonviolent rebellion-or keep it nonviolent...
Negative 90th. Most Americans looked to Washington for action. There was little indication, however, that either the President or the Congress-which is becoming known as the "negative 90th"-was of a mind to propose any major attempt to improve the lot of the slum dweller. Under the chair manship of Mississippi's archsegregationist James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called...
...highly successful" poverty program and other community-action programs-many of which have not even been started. No one group is all good or all bad. My suggestion to Americans appalled by the riots: become a little more appalled with the conditions, physical and emotional, that the ghetto dweller lives under and work consistently to erase and prevent the conditions that make for ghettos and the riots that grow out of them...