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...their merits. Singer is neither a skeptic nor a dogmatist. To those brought up on a steady diet of realism and humanism. his simple faith is refreshing. "When I'm in trouble I pray," he said. And since I'm always in trouble I'm always praying." But he seldom goes to synagogue. "If I had small children, I would take them to synagogue . . because small children need organized religion." he said. Singer's God is a paternal God who listens to our prayers and knows our weaknesses and our strengths...
...since the 1870s, when many state laws openly barred blacks as jurors. The Supreme Court has consistently struck down unfair statutes and practices. But the court has insisted only that black defendants have a right to a fair chance that blacks be on the jury, and the right is seldom fulfilled in practice: most juries are permitted to remain white. In the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, for example, the court upheld the conviction of a black rape suspect, even though peremptory challenges had excluded all blacks from the jury and no black juror had served in the county...
...theory, the U.S. retains this principle. Yet jurors in general are no longer neighbors in the old sense. In urban areas, they are drawn from citizens who seldom understand the pressures on minorities. Many states further narrow the jury base by excusing women and many professionals. Most blacks are barred in the drawing process or later by lawyers' peremptory challenges...
...jobs in the central cities. The 17 unions in the building crafts-including the carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers and painters-control employment on construction jobs. The control is exercised through union hiring halls, where lists of available jobs are called out, or else simply by word of mouth; blacks are seldom told the news. Discrimination is often abetted by contractors who "checkerboard" their few black workers, shifting them from job to job to give the appearance of complying with equal-employment regulations...
...York Telephone Co., which teaches its black employees remedial reading, geography, elocution and grooming, cites the typical case of a Harlem woman who stayed home from work to baby-sit when her mother was called away. Baby-sitting has a high priority in the ghetto but is seldom an excuse for skipping work in the white world. The telephone company tries to put its new girls beside experienced black operators, whom it calls "big sisters," to learn both discipline and skills...