Word: ghettoes
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...poverty and the problems of the inner city in a different light." Indeed, no thinker has done more than the 60-year-old sociologist to explain why the black underclass sank into such misery and isolation at the same time millions of other African Americans were escaping from the ghetto to create a vibrant middle class...
...GHETTO FOR GROWNUPS...
...real cost to themselves. Affluent blacks get the assurance that their children will learn to get along in the white world in which they will someday compete and the status that goes with sending them to a prestigious school. Most poor black children, meanwhile, are stuck in decrepit ghetto classrooms...
...black racial honor. He believes progress toward racial equality depends on acknowledging and rectifying the dysfunctional behaviors in the black community. This is usually taken to mean the underclass must clean up its act before it can move into the mainstream. But there are dysfunctional behaviors outside the ghetto that could also stand re-examination: the white notion that the country has already done enough to secure racial equity, and black middle-class complicity in the deterioration of inner-city schools. In both cases, honor depends on rediscovering our commitment to treating all children fairly. If it takes new turmoil...
...result, white employers rarely come into contact with prospective job applicants. Sheltered in the suburbs and operating in a world of limited information, their knowledge of black America is limited to the stereotypical images of ghetto crime, moral depravity and welfare dependency broadcast by the mass media. These generalizations, of course, are gross distortions of reality. But repeated falsehoods pass for truth...