Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parks claims the city has gone without any educational leaders since the era of Horace Mann. The present school committee won election in 1975 with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...
...they were stealing. Said one of two black boys standing outside a stripped bicycle shop near Columbia University: "We're just out shopping with our parents. This is better than going to Macy's." Some blacks resented all the fuss over the looting. Said Lorraine, 14, who had helped plunder a drugstore in East Harlem: "It gets dark here every night. Every night stores get broke into, every night people get mugged, every night you scared on the street. But nobody pays no attention until a blackout comes...
What had sparked the plunder...
...substantially increase our domestic production," Carter said the U.S. will become perilously dependent on increasingly costly imported oil. "We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs," and we would "constantly live in fear of embargoes." There would be pressure "to plunder the environment" in a crash program to expand nuclear plants, strip mining and the drilling of offshore wells. Regions within the U.S. would compete with each other for supplies. "Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs...
What happened after Reconstruction was worse--the cruel first cousins left the region (militarily) but stayed on in spirit to plunder it by proxy, eventually coming to make easy money through the South's cheap raw materials--oil, timber, coal, cotton--and cheap, uneducated labor. And the people who had fought the war, the dirt farmers, were ruled over by their own brothers. The rich planters on the land and the merchant lackeys in the towns did the bidding of their New York and Chicago masters. Poor white people stood up for their rights, in the North Carolina, Tennessee...