Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adopted a resolution "recognizing crime in the streets of America as a problem which demands the utmost concern and attention of all Americans." For all their concern and attention, however, the Governors refused to endorse gun-control legislation, which is favored by police chiefs around the country. "Gun control isn't going to solve the problem," said Georgia's Lester Maddox. "Punishment and apprehension is the answer...
...what is?and isn't?progress? Every force, it seems, save pride, encourages shoddy, unimaginative construction. Zoning laws set minimum standards that speculative builders take as maximum. Antiquated codes bar technological breakthroughs. New York, for instance, only two months ago finally got around to revising its 30-year-old code. An office building can be written off for tax purposes in 45 years ?so why build it to last any longer? Admits one construction-company official: "There's no such thing as a luxury rental building?only middle-income buildings at luxury prices." Most low-rent housing developments, says...
...White folk got all the guns and ammunition and the White folk hold all the key positions. Can it be, Dear Lord, that they're protecting a vested interest? Can it be that there really isn't very much room at the top and they feel insecure that some of them will be displaced? Or can it be, Oh God, that we just aren't to live together in harmony and there is a "Black Heaven" and a "White Heaven" and you just haven't told us about it? Or can it be that they're afraid that when Black...
...Black man, Charles Nesbitt, once said that "many Blacks have middle-class values but lower-class pocketbooks." Is this a reason why we can't live together? I tend to say yes, especially when part of this reason is White oriented. But even this isn't completely true, because some Black men have middle-class values and pocketbooks and still there is that gap between White and Black. Many White "Do Gooders" try to appease the Black man and fill this gap with what the old black schools of thought call "Tokenism," "Gradualism," and "See How Far You've Comeism...
Worse, there isn't even much entertainment unless you're radical enough to want victory by one side or the other. The good guys and the bad guys alternately butcher each other bloodily until John Wayne is practically the only survivor. This could be a happy or a sad ending depending on how you choose to think...