Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report draws the reader to the inner cities, where there exists "a persistent, large and growing underclass." In words which closely echo Kerner's assessment of Black ghettos in the 1960's, the inner cities are described as places of "crime, drug addiction, dependency on welfare and resentment against society in general and white society in particular...
Since the Kerner report, only the words have changed. No longer do we hear of ghettos, but now the inner city; no longer segregation laws, but crack, dirty syringes, government inaction, societal blindness...
...implications of this situation are too fully revealed in the fate of Edward Byrne. The circumstances of his death fit too well into the scenario depicted by the new report on civil disorders. South Jamaica, Queens-inner city. Poverty, crack-dealing, violent crime, a young man dead. And society is torn a more...
...help but feel angry when you think of the society he died for. You think of the slow death so many face in inner city communities, of people dying from their poverty, drugs, and pent up anger, without any hope that things will get better...
While the fathers were doing the nation's business, the sons were walking their own paths. George Bush was making his stake in the Texas oil patch. The tall, kindly Pres Bush passed on the stories of a life he relished when the grand men of the Senate's inner club held sway. His son could not resist Washington...