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This theme has also been raised by some black intellectuals, who have criticized traditional civil rights leaders for failing to promote the notion that poor blacks should take more responsibility for teenage pregnancy and social disintegration within the ghetto. Harvard Government Professor Glenn Loury, one of the leading lights of this new movement, told the Democrats that welfare "makes it possible" for a recipient to remain locked in poverty. Calling for a "frank acknowledgment" of the pathological behavior of some segments of the underclass, he stressed that welfare recipients should be encouraged to develop an "obligation" to improve their situation...
...York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who 20 years ago presciently warned of the breakdown of the black ghetto family, rejected the idea that Democratic programs should be blamed for creating a dependency on Government, which aggravated the underclass crisis. "It has become a belief bordering on prejudice," he said, "that the social ills of the present are the consequence of misguided Democratic social policies of the past two generations. None hold to this belief more guiltily, if furtively, than the Democrats." His party, Moynihan observed, is in "worse shape nationally than since the aftermath of the Civil War." He urged...
...many Governors (including Cuomo) should be radically strengthened through a strict requirement that welfare recipients take jobs. Nicholas Lemann, in an incisive series in the Atlantic, analyzes how the migration of poor blacks into the inner cities and the outward migration of middle-class blacks have created a destructive ghetto culture. It can only be broken, Lemann argues, by providing public-works jobs that get underclass blacks out of the ghetto...
Cruz speaks slowly, guardedly, as if he weighs each word before sharing part of himself. His style seems at once tough and sensitive. The toughness perhaps stems from growing up in a Trenton ghetto. Perhaps the sensitivity comes from having weathered four years at Harvard without submerging himself...
...assembly points to have their identities checked. Detainees are released after their hands have been stamped with black ink to indicate that they have been inspected. Only about 100 have been arrested and jailed. Says Valdes: "It is barbarous, exactly the same as what went on in the Warsaw Ghetto...