Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was little wonder why Theodore Streleski, 49, spent more than seven years in a California prison. What was troublesome was that he was a free man last week, still unrepentant over the brutal murder he had committed. Even more grotesque was his refusal to deny that he would kill again. Said he: "As I stand here now, I have no intention of killing again. On the other hand, I cannot predict the future...
...about eleven alleged mobsters who rule New York City's crime families, the self-confessed capo clammed up. Bonanno, 80, who now lives in Tucson, suffers from high blood pressure and a narrowing of the coronary arteries. He claimed that the stress of testifying against his old associates could kill...
...violence of today seems divorced from rationale and motive. The murders are mindless, random, indiscriminate. Young black men seem to be murdering one another with a malign indifference, killing with the casual air of Bruce Lee dispatching men in a kung fu movie. For some, it seems as if murder has become a kind of noxious fashion or wanton recreation. "Members of the new generation kill, maim and injure without reason or remorse," writes Silberman...
...this breeds a shadow society where traditional values are scarce and violence is promiscuous. For young black men, violence can become a warped form of self-assertion, a kind of "I kill, therefore I am." Snuffing out another life perversely affirms their own. Almost 40 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...
...blacks killing other blacks? That is the one question on which there is almost universal agreement: proximity. "You pick on what's close," says Social Worker Evans. Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint suggests in his book Why Blacks Kill Blacks that such violence is a manifestation of self-hatred and repressed rage, which he says are a legacy of racism. Killing someone who mirrors oneself is a reflection of hating oneself. "Violence can be a potent drug for the oppressed person," Poussaint says. "Reacting to the futility of his life, the individual derives an ultimate sense of power when...