Word: slumlords
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...wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Slumlord," a poem not listed in the Curriculum Guide. Despite the highly vocal efforts of many satisfied parents, he failed to win reinstatement...
...this context the poor are surely better off in a private market which has had some success in meeting their needs and even whose injustices are carried out by men who admit to doing well instead of pretending to do good. Direct exploitation by a slumlord is easier to accept or battle against than the hypocrasies of an urban renewal program which declares that "we can't let people live like that" (in vauable real estate) and proceeds to throw them out to make way for expensive housing. Steve Goldin...
...Negro Slumlord...
...such as the school principal and the slumlord whom the white community has in mind when it discusses Negro leadership, and when it contends that even Negroes don't want integration. To gain wealth and prominence in this segregated community most of the ambitious Negroes choose to become Uncle Toms. By so doing they guarantee themselves the political support of the white community and, consequently, the support of less wealthy Negroes who are financially dependant on them...
...such as the school principal and the slumlord whom the white community has in mind a day few people have time to worry about anything outside their personal problems: food, entertainment, and a little extra money. Unless a group such as the NAACP sets out deliberately to arouse the community, not many of these Negroes would even think about taking the risks that the phrase "fighting for equal rights" implies