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...this tends to make the film increasingly silly. Weir gives up on making the characters anything more than symbols, points on the line between evil white and primitive good. A few scenes of the ghetto in which the Aborigines live are lifeless, the city has no character, and the film disintegrates into stock effects. Chamberlain discovers a secret Aborigine city beneath Sydney, and learns that an ancient white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very...
...young turn to crime, so do the poor. The turn to crime as the clearest opportunity for success, and the route taken by their role models; IBM doesn't recruit in the ghetto, but the numbers runners do. And the need for success, almost palpable in affluent American society, redoubled by television, cannot be underestimated; lack of material success means lack of identity, and the precarious sense of self of poor people causes them to seek the excitement of crime to confirm their existence...
...that they can hire the unemployed for public service jobs. The CETA program has been roundly criticized for putting workers into jobs that provide no useful training for employment in the private economy. None theless, CETA cuts would anger blacks, who regard the program as of potential benefit to ghetto youths, and organized labor, which already is very unhappy with Carter. Last week AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the Stage II wage-price guidelines as unfair and demanded a special session of Congress to establish mandatory controls. He also took a swing at the dollar-rescue program, contending that...
During her regime, the Panthers pursued a number of social enterprises that had been started under Newton. They founded and still operate the Oakland Community School, which provides high-level education to 150 ghetto kids. There was and is a program that helps old people to go out shopping and another that provides school lunches. One Panther program offers dances for teen-agers and training in martial arts. Says Oakland County Supervisor John George: "Huey could take street-gang types and give them a social consciousness...
Today the mythic has become real; cheap handguns and narcotics have become the outlets for aggression. Ironically, desegregation is partly responsible. Middle-class blacks, once a restraining force in the ghetto, have moved out and left behind lower-class enclaves. Social ties that still bind Hispanics, like family and religion, have worn away. Though blacks increasingly attack whites, most of their victims are other blacks...