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...that in spite of the continuing racism that is still a barrier to opportunities, the underclass must help itself out of its morass. In his pulpit style, Chicago's the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of the Operation PUSH self-help group, says: "It is bad to be in the slum, but it is worse when the slum is in you. The spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in patrolling ghetto schools and street corners...
...South Bronx, along East Tremont Avenue, one of the few shopping areas left in the gutted slum, looters stole some $55,000 worth of goods from the huge R & M Furniture store. The next day its owner put out word that he would pay $25 for each TV set returned. Police learned from a tipster that a man had stashed swag in his basement. The cops entered without a search warrant and reclaimed about $2,000 worth of furniture. One of the invading cops admitted later with a laugh: "Now I can be arrested for a violation...
Many black and Hispanic leaders across the country were dismayed by the rioting. In a typical comment, Carlos Castro, president of Chicago's Puerto Rican United Front, noted that the plunderers were poor and lived in slum housing, though he said of the violence: "You can't justify it." So far, there were no signs of a white backlash, even though many broadcast and newspaper accounts of the power failure emphasized the disorders. Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from...
...organization's money at the gaming tables of Cairo. But as even critics of the P.L.O. concede, most of the Palestinian leaders emulate the ascetic style of Arafat who, despite international renown, dresses in baggy battle fatigues, operates out of a spartan office in a Beirut slum, and indulges in neither whisky, cigarettes nor women...
Analysts tirelessly?and correctly ?say that unemployment, slum housing, inadequate schools and the pathology of the ghetto contribute to the spreading scourge of youth crime. But the reverse is also true: the ripple effects of crime eventually overwhelm a city and destroy its élan. People are frightened away from downtown, reducing business for stores, theaters, restaurants. In their place, thick as weeds, sprout porno houses, massage parlors and gambling havens, where criminals thrive...