Word: ghettoese
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CAUSE is coordinating protests of the BRA's relocation tactics, which are threatening to dissolve ethnic power by scattering Negroes and Puerto Ricans throughout Boston. To keep political influence, leaders such as Molino don't want the ghettoes to break up. They're working to upgrade the neighborhoods instead.
The old-line, paternalistic settlement houses, organized into USES (United South End Settlements), want the ghettoes broken up. USES "has contracted with the Boston Re-development Authority to handle the relocation of displaced families for it," says Janet Murray, a USES family counsellor. "The complicity is there. USES is encouraging...
And there is a fundamental change in the function of religion. Wright's other-worldly predecessors, in southern churches and in storefronts in northern ghettoes, sought salvation in the God manufactured for the black slave by his master; He who promised "pie in the sky, after you die." Wright and...
The Congress will vote tomorrow on policy stands concerning the war in Vietnam, the draft, unrest in the urban ghettoes, black power, and student power.
Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, and E.U. Essien-Udom, author of the famous Black Nationalism (written at Chicago under Edward C. Banfield) were anticipating, based on their knowledge of Negro lower class culture and the Muslim phenomenon, that the ghettoes would soon erupt into riot. "What's going to...