Word: ghettoes
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Finally, the stereotypes. My God, 90% of white South Africans go through a lifetime without entering a black township! I came to New York City, where I lived for a time, and found that a majority of white Americans seldom set foot in a ghetto. They know nothing about the real life of black people. They react to what they see on television. I know because that is the way they reacted...
Even Jesse Jackson, who earned enormous respect by urging the ghetto poor to eschew drugs and take charge of their own destinies, has joined ranks of Barry's apologists. He compared the Barry investigation to Soviet police surveillance, saying the Black community is "threatened by what the government has done...
Farrakhan's raging and Jackson's sidestepping send the dismal message that Blacks in the ghetto need not take responsibility for their actions because the history of white oppression some-how excuses crime and moral decadence. In short, empowerment means ranting and revolting--but not reforming...
...face it, the plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...
Enter John Silber, president of Boston University, a Reaganite Democrat who has long advertised his disdain for Dukakis. Silber tossed off offensive remarks -- toward bureaucrats, the elderly, feminists, ghetto residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at a moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist...