Word: underclass
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...military requires that almost all recruits have a high school diploma or its equivalent, which excludes from the military nearly three quarters of the Black men who used to apply, along with many other poor people. The armed forces draw the bulk of their strength neither from an exploited underclass nor from the generally hedonistic upper classes, but from the lower-middle and middle classes, who usually think that serving in the military is an honorable way to live...
...kill browns for the benefit of whites. The all-volunteer force is a sham, since economic factors have forced the poorer, Blacker sections of America to sign up in disproportionately high numbers. As in Vietnam, the body bags will again carry home the remains of the politically disempowered underclass...
...Spacek's husband, teetering between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn about today's racial antagonisms from a long-ago tug of war between saints (the black underclass) and demons (the Alabama plutocracy)? The movie plays like a Christmas card whose sentiment is noble but whose poetry is doggerel...
...face it, the plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...
...Chicago, for example, Operation PUSH--Jackson's old civil rights organization--is busy organizing a boycott of Nike shoes because of that company's failure to appoint a Black to its board of directors. Seriously folks, the closest relationship between Nike and the problems of the underclass is the alarming frequency with which young teens are shot and stabbed for a $125 pair of Air Jordans...