Word: ghettoes
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There are ten times 4000 students in the black and Spanish ghetto-neighborhoods of Boston, Cleveland, New York and Chicago who would for certain be effective competition for the men and women who are now enrolled in colleges like this, but who will never have the chance to stand or struggle, perish or prevail, all for no other reason of exclusion but the accident of color, cash and birth. Those, however, who partake of opportunities like these cannot confront the dangerous idea that what they recognize as their participation is someone else's cold and inexplicable exclusion. The scholar trains...
...Gerry, his "big apple" cap hanging to one side of his head, life in the ghetto is decidedly unideological. "We got nothing to do, maaan. There's no good telling me about jobs. I don't want any of them shitty jobs. I steal what I want and I'm going to keep on stealing...
...philosophy was to keep things cool, to show kids a good time," says Pitts, who was a summer counselor in 1971 and led the program thereafter. Before that, he said, the Big Brother Program was part of a pacification effort--an attempt to keep the ghetto from erupting in violence, to keep the black man in his place. As director, Pitts wanted a more political program...
Esther John, spokesman for the group, said that "given Kilson's low opinion of black ghetto people, we question the propriety of his views dominating a basic course on the black community...
...first victim was Evelyn Wagler, 24, a Swiss divorcee who had moved to Boston only five days earlier and was living in a small commune in the city's Roxbury ghetto with another white and four black women. While she was on her way home from a job-hunting trip, her car ran out of gasoline in the center of Roxbury's business district. Returning to it with a two-gallon refill can from a service station, the young woman was forced into a trash-filled backyard along Blue Hill Avenue by six black teenagers, beaten and ordered...