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...most sensitive issues for the black middle class is its relationship to the ghetto poor. University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson has elaborated a persuasive theory suggesting that the worsening status of the underclass is inextricably tied to the flight from the inner city of most of its upwardly mobile black population. Its departure not only deprived poor youngsters of successful role models but also knocked the props from under churches, schools and other neighborhood institutions that provided stability and support for the impoverished. Middle-class flight, together with economic shifts that have resulted in a dearth...
...been said that the two places where minorities band together most are ghettos and colleges. An unlikely pair, to be certain. Ghetto minorities--in Chinatown, say--gather together simply because they live in dense, racially uniform communities. Yet Harvard, with a more diverse population than most other communities, is no ghetto. The Admissions Office prides itself on its percentages, only to have minority organizations steal their meaning...
...children will have increased by more than 25 percent from what it is today while the number of white children will only increase two-tenths of one percent, according to a Washington-based advocacy group. Many of these minority children will be poor, the offspring of today's impoverished ghetto and barrio youth...
Eventually people must realize that the costs of inaction are borne by more than the poor. Extremist groups such as the Nation of Islam have cleaned up drug-infested areas and earned the support of many local residents. If the government cannot help the prisoners of the urban ghetto, hate groups will...
Bush is unwilling to attack the demand side of the drug equation, cleaning up the inner city, because it entails renouncing many of his conservative principles. He would have to advocate ending residential segregation, investing much more in inner-city schools and expanding substantive economic opportunities for ghetto residents. While he may be slowly breaking out of the Reagan mold, he still has a very long...