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...face it, the plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...
...antithesis of trite "Four Score" is "John," the foremost song of social consciousness for The Barley Boys. It shares the coolness and plaintive tone of their previous number, "Harbortown," but has a strong groove that distinguishes it. "John" applies the intensity of "Harbortown" to the plight of a homeless beggar in the Boston Common. The poignant, probing lines like, "Oh, what is it that plays with our minds that prevents us from doing something human and kind?" understandably, and understandingly, haunt listeners...
Last weekend George Bush joined 34 other Presidents, 27 Prime Ministers, a King, a Grand Duke and a Cardinal, among others, at the United Nations for a meeting unlike any in history: the World Summit for Children. The leaders came to discuss the plight of 150 million children under the age of five suffering from malnutrition, 30 million living in the streets, 7 million driven from their homes by war and famine...
...cannot sacrifice its most vulnerable citizens without eroding its sense of community and making a lie of its principles. But having been left behind by a decade of political shortcuts, child advocates have < adopted a more practical strategy. "If compassion were not enough to encourage our attention to the plight of our children," declares New York Governor Mario Cuomo, "self-interest should be." Marian Wright Edelman, the crusading founder of the Children's Defense Fund, goes further. "The inattention to children by our society," she warns, "poses a greater threat to our safety, harmony and productivity than any external enemy...
Presidents, Prime Ministers, a King and a Cardinal gather at the United Nations to discuss the plight of the world's most vulnerable citizens. What kind of leadership can the U.S. offer? Not much, so long as we stubbornly refuse to invest in health care, education and basic support programs for the young...