Word: ghettoes
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...Celtic people, particularly during the miners' bitterly fought 12-months long battle against Thatcher's government. Kinnock endorsed racist cop terror against Black people in Britain when he laid a wreath last month at the grave of a racist cop, killed during the brutal police occupation of a London ghetto...
Drugs have produced an alternative economy that can provide high wages and self-esteem to young men who cannot earn either in the mainstream. With the lack of role models in the ghetto, successful neighborhood drug dealers often become heroes to inner-city kids. "The males in the community who are law abiding and decent have less and less respect," says Anderson. "Today you find the hustlers out there taking time for young people." Many residents of Chicago's South Side last week grieved over the assassination of 49-year-old Willie ("Flukey") Stokes, a flamboyant drug dealer who enjoyed...
...girlfriends and drugs but often for saying the wrong thing or wearing the wrong type of clothes. Acts of brutality serve as a way of proving one's manhood, and the casual nature of the violence might reflect a general feeling that life is not worth much in the ghetto...
Given the vicissitudes of inner-city life today, the odds against escaping the ghetto and the treachery of the street seem greater than ever before. "It was difficult for me and my generation," says Claude Brown, whose 1965 autobiography, Manchild in the Promised Land, drew a harrowing picture of teenage delinquency in Harlem. "It's almost impossible...
...both a cause and an effect of the poverty cycle. According to Census Bureau statistics, nearly two-thirds of all black children are born to unwed mothers. Of the nation's 4.6 million black families with children, 2.6 million are headed by a single woman -- and in some ghetto areas it is estimated to be close to 90%. As a result, most inner-city black children never know the experience of having a father at home with steady work who can instill the ambitions and habits that lead to success...