Word: ghettoes
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...what of race? Los Angeles is rapidly becoming a city of multiple ghettos. The blacks are in their place, the whites in theirs. The Vietnamese are here, the Koreans over there, the Japanese in the middle. The Salvadorans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and other Latin Americans may all be Hispanic, but they too are increasingly likely to be separated along national lines. The phenomenon is not new. Watts has been a black ghetto for 60 years or so. Indeed, what was once a relatively small and discrete area around Central Avenue has grown until it is now defined more by the color...
...SEEMS LIKE CENTURIES SINCE THE Beastie Boys stormed the pop charts with their 1986 album, Licensed to Ill, an appealingly rude debut that fused Animal House antics with a pounding beat borrowed from the black ghetto. No longer the only white kids on the block, the Beasties have since been muscled aside by a host of hip-hoppers, including current media champ Marky Mark. Their response has been to grow up -- sort...
...made the problems of the cities an issue to be reckoned with in this year's election campaigns. But the 1992 presidential election will also be the first in which suburbanites are a majority of the voters -- up from just 36% in 1968, when the white backlash against the ghetto riots of that era helped elect Richard Nixon. What Nixon understood then, and what a great deal of state and federal policy has reflected since then, is that the suburbs control the nation's political destiny. Voters there will punish any candidate who would have them transfer tax revenue back...
...white victim in the ghetto was tragedy, a Black victim was normal...
...flames finally rose high enough to be seen over the ghetto wall. Why did no one see the smoke...