Word: ghettoes
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...steps that Black students should take to combat it, but the real issue of racism is not behind these ivied walls; instead, it's on the streets of Roxbury and Cambridge and in other Black communities. It manifests itself through the serious economic deprivation and oppression inflicted on ghetto residents. If there is one Black child who goes to sleep with an empty stomach or one Black youth without access to a meaningful education, then it is the primary obligation of all Blacks to do what they can to help change the situation...
...since Election Day, presiding over a lunch at Blair House for women members of Congress. There he was given a preview of the demands that will begin to supplant the ritual once he is in the White House. Democrat Shirley Chisholm, whose district contains Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, asked what he was going to do about jobs for the inner cities. Reagan briefly explained his support for an innovative proposal to establish free enterprise zones that would provide tax incentives for industry to move into impoverished areas. Chisholm did not press the matter, even though she is skeptical...
...face the students in the dorm." Wilson recalls that one student on the Committee of Fifteen placed himself in the care of University Health Services for psychological trauma, which Wilson says was caused by ostracism from fellow students. Rosenblatt concurs: "They were seen as a kind of ghetto police...
...American society's past condonement of the anti-Asian violence and Exclusion Acts (which prohibited Asian immigration) at the turn-of-the-century, the internment of 112,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the massacre at My Lai, and the present ghetto conditions of all urban Asian communities in the U.S. History clearly shows that our fears are legitimate...
Three men sit on a stoop, red-eyed, joking with one another. Every day they hold court on these steps, alone or in a group, thinking out loud, passing the day away, brooding. They know they are poor and alcoholic, but most of all they know the ghetto and how it smells and falls apart. They'll tell you that looking you in the eye, and describe how much it hurts. Sure they know. All they have to do is turn on the television and watch Mrs. Middle Class vacuum her horribly dirt-ridden shag carpet to know. They watch...