Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breathtaking Elegance. Along with its amazing physical growth, Los Angeles has also grown mightily in other ways. As the golden city in a golden state, it has become the symbol of vitality, youth, growth and opportunity -a municipal magnet...
Such diffused authority often makes it difficult to deal with Los Angeles' problems-and, for all its attractions, Los Angeles has been plagued by most of the same troubles that beset other U.S. cities. Of all, none has attracted more attention than Watts, the symbol of hope and frustration for the metropolitan area's 650,000 Negroes. Watts (pop. 30,000) occupies a small part of a vast South Los Angeles Negro ghetto the size of Boston. Though its stucco homes and pastel-colored housing projects have a neat and ordered look that does not accord with...
...years while the population has nearly doubled, that they have been able to keep up with the rising crime rate. It is, in fact, this very efficiency, brusque as it often is, that seems to bother minorities, particularly Negroes. They tend to see the cop as the symbol of white power and to blame him for most of their ills...
...them. The riots "were indeed fomented by agitators," said the Attorney General, "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested housing and long-impacted cynicism." Further complicating the problem is the fact, said Katzenbach, that policemen lack the confidence of the poor because they are "the visible symbol of faceless, nameless frustrations...
...Symbol of Oppression. Racial trouble is indeed becoming an everyday occurrence in the U.S. It is also a gnawing problem for Great Britain, now flooded with Negro and Indian immigrants. In the past decade, 28 new African nations have gone through the upheaval of change from white to black rule, and many are now beset by shattering tribal conflicts. But nowhere has the violence of one race against another reached the proportions of the apartheid of South Africa. It is not the bloody violence of hurled bricks and broken bones, but it is violence nonetheless-the moral violence of oppression...