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Crack's low price and quick payoff make it especially alluring to teenagers. Young abusers, said Arnold Washton, a New York expert on treating cocaine addicts, "run the gamut from inner-city ghetto kids to kids from affluent suburbs." But the price of this highly concentrated drug is greater than many youngsters realize: New Jersey's national cocaine hot line (1-800-COCAINE) has found that 98% of the callers say they became addicted to crack within six months...
...colonies on Penikese Island off Cape Cod? The Boston Globe identified him only as a Harvard professor and so did The Crimson. More relevant than his Harvard affiliation, perhaps, is the fact that in the early 1970's Dr. Mark proposed mandatory psychosurgery (lobotomy) for Blacks who participated in ghetto riots or who were incarcerated for violent crimes. And he almost got to test this scheme at Vaccaville prison in California when the project was stopped as a result of extensive protest. Ruth Hubbard Professor of Biology
...Brooklyn College sociology professor William Beer in a recent issue of The New Republic: "A Black student said that 50 million Africans perished in slavery. 'My great grandfather was a slave. You OWE me!' To which a Jewish student's answer was, 'My great grandfather was in a Polish ghetto when yours was a slave. I don't owe you ANYTHING! [Beer's capitals...
...culture. Thomas Sowell says in Economics and Race, education always held a prominent and respected place in Jewish society. Jewish immigrants seized upon every opportunity for free education, using the likes of City College and Brooklyn College itself to gain the education that allowed them to move from the ghetto into the highest ranks of society. Where direct aid from the federal government generally met with failure, education succeeded...
Such people will surely pass on their own acquired regard for education to their children, friends and neighbors. Even if such people leave the ghetto and join the middle class, even those with whom they no longer have social contact can see the evidence of education's power to lift one of their peers out out of the "underclass...