Word: underclass
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Crossroads, Chapman's second album, has been out for five months and has sold 4 million copies. Again there are songs about poverty and the underclass, but Crossroads is darker, more self-involved than the first album. It is less concerned with the political battles of the world than the emotional conflicts within herself. We hear the voice of a young woman who gives more than she gets to lovers who take more than they give...
What a year for the underclass it's been, at least in Ivy League men's basketball...
Keith said he perceives corporate America as becoming increasingly aware of the existence of "a burgeoning underclass" and of the possibility of the American economy suffering as a result of an undertrained, uneducated workforce...
...worst problems of the black underclass today -- young black men murdering other young black men; young black males fathering children of females who are virtually children themselves; young blacks lost to crack and heroin -- all connect directly to black manhood and responsibility...
...conscious and thinking individual as reactionary conservatism or his own self-defined "PW" (politically wrong) ideology. Unfortunately, Plotz's cry of "PC totalitarianism" reads as an attempt to shut up the voice of traditionally oppressed groups with accusations of reverse discrimination. Systematically bombasting the grievances of the underclass, his is a clever and insidious tactic which, like it or not, serves the same purpose as old-fashioned bigotry...