Word: ghettoes
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When he talks about these things, the bravado front softens. Foremost in Breslin's book is the problem of jobs in the cities--especially for blacks: "If you don't put jobs in the ghetto, you're going to have crime and fear forever. We need these jobs, because as long as you can start them on the work you can cut down the crime. But you can't expect results right away. You're going to have to struggle and make excuses and work with these bastards for another 50, 75, who knows how many, years...
...Wiseman has gone from High School to Hospital to Basic Training. "Shooting these films about institutions," he has said, "is like being on the track of the Abominable Snowman. You're looking for cultural spoor wherever you go. A hospital or a high school is as much a ghetto as central Harlem, because most of us don't have the damnedest idea what goes on in them...
Scott also denounced writer and politician Imanu Baraka (Leroi Jones), as an agent for the CIA in its attempts to yoke ghetto youths with "slave labor" jobs...
...Youth gangs are the only form of organized resistance left in the ghetto," Scott said. He alleged that the CIA had decimated the large memberships of Chicago's Black P. Stone Nation and Philadelphia's Zulus "because they have fought slave labor...
Baraka is worth "hundreds of millions of dollars to the CIA, "Scott claimed, in its alleged drive to force young ghetto blacks into slave labor...