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...three cities-Chicago, Washington and Boston-the study found that four out of every five white policemen working in Negro neighborhoods have prejudiced attitudes toward Negroes. The report estimated that 45% of the white police (and, surprisingly, nearly 10% of the Negro police) showed near pathological hostility: "These scum aren't people". . ."We oughta gas these niggers-they're ruining the country." Though the survey found that police are rarely "unprofessional" in their contacts with Negroes, the conclusion was inescapable that this antipathy is felt by ghetto dwellers and itself contributes to riots...
...while employed in a Yonkers, N.Y., carpet factory, finally realized that his metier was poetry. Thus the rough, unschooled youth of 19 set out to fashion his poems not for "the portly presence of potentates goodly in girth" but for the "dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth." Such a taste was bound to shock the fastidious Edwardians, who were still doting on Tennyson. Shock them Masefield did with such long narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy, which spoke of "painted whores" and "reeking hags" and "drunken, poaching, boozing brutes...
...remaining oil at sea, six Royal Navy ships and a small armada of civilian tugs and trawlers scattered thousands of gallons of oil-dispersing detergent. Along the beaches, British troops and civilians bulldozed oily areas, scattered more detergent and strung out floating antisubmarine "booms" to corral the surface scum...
...overtures to improve race relations, moved to cut off relief and unemployment benefits to the rioters, ordered the city housing authority to evict some of those arrested. The city also set bond so high that few could be released from jail. Sabonjian called the rioters "animals, junkheads, winos and scum," said that their actions were "not the acts of human beings...
...been following them began to yell, --"Don't walk by a Catholic church... Don't walk by, you're not good enough." There seemed to be an ambivalent feeling: the spectators seem to assume that the marchers felt superior to everyone else; the natural response were constant taunts of "scum." Nor, in many cases, did the marchers' response dispel initial impressions. The quiet, "let's be reasonable, "can't we talk about this" approach was simply alien and frustrating...