Word: helled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among them the United States government." Louis is, of course, being figurative; we Blacks have not been in serious danger of random head-beating for some time, and Louis's use of this analogy in fact belies our tremendous progress since the time when people might, "just for the hell of it, decide to decorate their trees and telephone poles with Black bodies...
Shoe Shop Owner David Rivera, 35, and his wife Irma, 33, were the first to settle into the new project, genteelly christened Charlotte Gardens. Proudly showing off his fully equipped three-bedroom house with its cathedral ceilings, plush carpeting and small backyard, David notes, "This is a hell of a deal compared with the hellhole we lived in before." The Riveras jumped at the chance to desert their often heatless $400-a-month rental apartment near by. They took possession of their new $47,000 home with an initial $7,500, and will pay a mortgage of $370 a month...
...recently, was perhaps the most grotesque aspect of Black life in America: the fact that one's life could at any time be snuffled out at the whim of a white police officer, or some terrorist from the Klan, or a bunch of people who might, just for the hell of it, decide to decorate their trees and telephone poles with Black bodies. This went on everywhere, not just in the South...
...other news, the Boston Globe recently reported that the gap between Black and white infant mortality rates has widened, with the rate for Blacks lingering at the level found in many underdeveloped countries. This has a great deal to do with malnutrition and poverty, which the government is hell-bent on increasing by cutting back Food Stamps and other programs. On the question of unemployment, National Public Radio, like many other media outlets, a couple of weeks ago echoed the latest self-congratulations of the government, chirping happily about the "good economic news" that unemployment dropped slightly. A little later...
That's some of the bad news. Many people who hear it will still just mentally say "Oh well, the Blacks are still catching hell" and go have a nice day. They are not the people who should be appealed to in the first place, but part of the problem that must be dealt with. Unfortunately, the ones I should be addressing, the Black Americans themselves, are a little harder to reach. An estimated 44 percent of us are functionally illiterate...