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What is the explanation for this murderousness? Why are blacks disproportionately represented as victims and victimizers, as predators and prey? One partial explanation, some experts contend, is the hopelessness that pervades the urban ghetto, which fosters a kind of street-corner nihilism, a feeling that nothing is worth anything. Says James M. Evans Jr., a social worker who organized a workshop last year in Washington on the subject of black-on-black violence: "They believe they have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should...
...utilizes a gift for gab, a talent for making "the old feel young and the poor feel rich," as one friend puts it. Bunting favors disguises, what he calls "hidebehinds," becoming everything from a fish peddler to a buck dancer in order to confuse or disarm his prey. When these tricks fail, he calls upon oratorical ammunition. Confronted with some violators intent on ambushing him, he announces: "It is my duty to inform you that I am slick with a gun. I don't want to meet you in the Great Beyond and have you telling me that I didn...
...rarely bothering the citizens uptown, the new gangs are becoming highly mobile, moving easily around a city and sometimes across the country. West Coast police report that Vietnamese groups may strike one night in San Jose, a couple of nights later in Dallas or Washington. Chinese gangs hound their prey all over the country. "They operate as though any Chinese person anywhere is fair game," according to a recent FBI report...
...Diego (pop. 2 million), an adjacent Sunbelt city with many military personnel, both active and retired, and relatively few Hispanic residents. The canyons and ravines on the south side of San Diego have become a no-man's-land, where Mexican bandits, many of them drug addicts, prey on their countrymen crossing the border illegally. U.S. Border Patrol agents and San Diego police trying to control this violence have run into Mexican police in the canyons who, they suspect, have participated in the robberies. On at least two occasions the officers from the two nations have shot at each other...
Amidst the rallies, sit-ins, and shouting, however, many of the original arguments for divestiture have been reduced to mere slogans, easy prey for those who still believe that constructive engagement by American firms can erode apartheid from within...