Word: ghetto
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...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
Organized labor and women's groups see comparable worth in a different light. Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, said her group would "raise hell" over the decision, and lauded the concept as a tool that women can use "to break out of the ghetto of low wages." Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a plaintiff in the Washington suit, called comparable worth "pay equity for workingwomen." McEntee said the union intends to appeal last week's decision to the Supreme Court...
What is the explanation for this murderousness? Why are blacks disproportionately represented as victims and victimizers, as predators and prey? One partial explanation, some experts contend, is the hopelessness that pervades the urban ghetto, which fosters a kind of street-corner nihilism, a feeling that nothing is worth anything. Says James M. Evans Jr., a social worker who organized a workshop last year in Washington on the subject of black-on-black violence: "They believe they have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should...
...themselves, subconsciously provoking the murder and making it a kind of willed suicide. Poussaint notes, as do many others, that the easy availability of handguns gives power to the powerless. What the Colt six- shooter was to the Wild West is what the "Saturday-night special" is to the ghetto: the great equalizer...
Some suggest that for blacks in the ghetto, crime and a life of violence are an occupational choice, like becoming a doctor or lawyer is for a child from the suburbs. In the ghetto, suggests Benjamin Carmichael in an article in Black Perspectives on Crime and the Criminal Justice System, the successful criminal cuts a glamorous figure and projects an enviable life-style, becoming a role model for youngsters whose only glimpse of wealth is on Dynasty or Dallas. Says Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.): "You cannot ignore the fact that a poor black...