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Allison said he agreed with Glazer that "affirmative action is dead and we don't have enough nails to put in the coffin." He said hiring minorities has stopped being the moral issue of hiring "poor blacks from the ghetto...
ONLY ONE BLACK woman, sitting on a delapidated front stoop in an unnamed ghetto, comes close to an indictment. "Out here's a jail too. They let you outta there to come back here 'cause they know. They got you." Another woman, also a prostitute, ventures beyond the scope of the film when she says, "It's not really the men's fault; we're all victims. The almighty God of this country is the dollar bill." Deitch was not interested in pursuing either that thought or the politics of oppression in any broader context. The film closes with...
...vacation I went to about six used-clothing stores and tried on about 30 tuxes that were big enough for someone else to get in with me until I found one that fit--midnight blue but baggy--for 13 dollars in a Veteran's Warehouse on the east side ghetto of my hometown. I could borrow the cummerbund from my roommate, and my mother found an ancient pair of suspenders with leather loops up in the attic. All in all it was a big pain in the ass getting all the clothes together--I wore an oversized pair of black...
Currently, 181,000 parents are involved in some way in the program. Besides helping to teach, they make up the majority of each E.C.E. school's advisory committee, which shapes the overall program. Parent participation in ghetto schools has traditionally been a problem across the country and remains one in California, but the problem has been partially solved by using E.C.E. money to hire mothers as teaching aides. They earn $2,320 a school year for a 3-hr. day. For more help in the classroom, older children from nearby high schools have been recruited...
...Sunday the ubiquitous Stanton Davis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band will play at Tuft's Cohen Auditorium. The $1 show begins...