Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opponents have accused Kucinich of using racist appeals in his campaigns. In the nonpartisan mayoral primary, Kucinich polled only 15.3 per cent of the black vote compared to 25.3 per cent for Republican Lieutenant Governor George V. Voinovich. Still, Kucinich delivers speeches in the black ghetto to tumultuous applause and former mayor Carl Stokes has strongly endorsed him, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I understand that in a diverse city in which racial politics has been the order of the day, that, if a man is going to survive, he has to do what everyone who has survived has done...
...they want us all to believe that. It's rubbish. The government spends more money on maintaining tribal separation than it does on education. They divide us according to tribes even in the black ghetto. For example, black students seeking tertiary education must go to a tribal university...
...Black psychologists have constructed a number of tests that depend on a knowledge of ghetto slang...
...Stefan Kanfer's account of the presidential commission's journey to the sites of the Holocaust [Aug. 20] is a gut-wrenching reminder of the sinister events of only a generation ago. Rereading it once a year will truly keep alive the last command in the Warsaw ghetto: Pamiętaj! Remember...
...oddly, the U.S. probably seemed more decadent, or at any rate, considerably more disturbed, eight or ten years ago than it does now. In the midst of the Viet Nam War, the ghetto riots, the assassinations, the orgasmic romanticism of the counterculture, the national rage was more on the surface...