Word: underclass
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David R. De Remer's sports column, "Maybe They Should Stay in School" (Sports, April 5) caught my attention because the author doesn't seem to fully understand the influx of underclass basketball players into the pros...
...Early entry of underclass students requires a much more balanced and knowledgeable analysis than De Remer cares to give...
...them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later, he excoriated them for romanticizing "cynically anti-Semitic, mean-spirited, and simply incompetent" demagogues such as Louis Farrakhan while the underclass plunged into misery...
...speak up about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. As Rivers inquired earlier this month in an open letter to African-American thinkers, clergymen and politicians, "What verdict will our descendants render upon their ancestors who stood silently by as a generation of African children was reduced to a biological underclass by this sexual holocaust...
...forbidden from building in areas vulnerable to mudslides. And while the former paratrooper has earned top marks for his hands-on supervision of relief efforts, his approach to rebuilding the country in the wake of its worst disaster this century may dent his overwhelming popularity among Venezuela's underclass...