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...while the national average was 5.8%. As a group, Hispanics are the most undereducated of Americans?despite their own deep belief in the maxim, Saber es poder (Knowledge is power). Only 40% have completed high school, vs. 46% of U.S. blacks and 67% of the whites. In urban ghetto areas, the school dropout rate among Hispanics frequently reaches 85%. Language is an obvious handicap, but the vocal Hispanic demand for bilingual education raises particular problems...
...Hispanics replaced blacks as the largest minority in Los Angeles. They are now overhauling whites, whose share of the city population has declined from 80.9% in 1950 to a projected 44.4% in 1980. Rapid demographic swings have brought racial edginess back to Los Angeles, where the Watts ghetto riots of 1965 are still remembered with fear. Says retired Los Angeles Police Captain Rudy de Leon: "There is more outward prejudice now against Mexican people than there has ever been." Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler did not help when he noted in an interview that his paper did not court...
...Uncle Toms." Today businessmen like Gilbert Vasquez, 39, head of the largest Hispanic certified public accounting firm in the U.S. (five offices, 65 employees), feel that individual successes will be "stepping-stones" to lasting change. Vasquez, who has moved out of the barrio to suburban Alhambra, remains involved in ghetto issues and tries to get other Hispanic professionals to take part in politics. At one chicano fund-raising cocktail party, guests anted up $20,000 for Jerry Brown's re-election campaign...
Most of the 1.3 million Puerto Ricans in the greater New York City area live in the grim, crumbling tenements of Manhattan's East Harlem and Lower East Side, or in Brooklyn's Williamsburg ghetto, or in the burned-out wasteland of the South Bronx. For them, life is mostly a grinding struggle for survival...
...twelve. And there was the challenge of bringing his body back into condition to fight-really fight, not rope-a-dope-a powerful champion eleven years his junior. Leon Spinks, on the other hand, was overwhelmed by the new status he had so frantically sought. The privations of a ghetto background had suddenly been replaced by $3.75 million purses. The gap-toothed young street fighter was, overnight, the biggest man in sports. There were cars, women and arrests for driving without a license or headlights or a proper sense of direction on one-way streets...