Word: ghettoes
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...other fighters in Shadow Box are black, no one will mistake Plimpton for a Great White Hope. Rather he calls to mind the role Beau Bridges played in the early '70s film The Landlord: a rich, soft, and well-intentioned white boy mixing it up with blacks from the ghetto--emerging unscathed by some miracle, but not unchanged...
...future." McWhirter interviewed Minister of Justice James Kruger on the Stephen Biko affair, and has met with Afrikaner students, Boer families, colored leaders and young black militants. "One disheartening thing that has happened in the past few months," he says, "is the growing suspicion in Soweto, the black ghetto outside Johannesburg, toward all whites. When I first arrived, a black friend was enough, then a press card, then an American accent. Today it is difficult to gain their trust...
Detroit: Coleman A. Young, 59, is equally at home wolfing down hot dogs on a ghetto street or dining on filet de boeuf Richelieu with Henry Ford II. An early supporter of Jimmy Carter, Young was rewarded when the President paid him a visit during the campaign. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and Muhammad Ali also came into the state. Henry Ford II lent his assistance. Young's main opposition was concentrated in the largely white police force, where there is particular resentment against his policy of favoring blacks for city jobs and promotions...
Most often the headlines and the horror stories come out of big-city ghetto schools, where the problems ?racial, financial, educational?are the worst. The problems are real enough, but in many ways they are so special as to be part of the larger society's difficulties in improving the lot of America's underclass, rather than crises of education...
...ghetto areas around the country, arson is often a means of feeding drug habits. Unable to afford the tools to remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas...