Word: underclass
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...regard for education to their children, friends and neighbors. Even if such people leave the ghetto and join the middle class, even those with whom they no longer have social contact can see the evidence of education's power to lift one of their peers out out of the "underclass...
...increase the nation's tax burden, increase spending on our schools, and increase incentives for military and public service. When political reality negates these possibilities for social justice, different and direct action must be undertaken to redress the grievances of America's disadvantaged. The continued presence of an American underclass, in spite of the dollars of the Great Society, attests to the fact that the mandate of "should" is not the present answer to our nation's problems...
...males ages 15 to 24 in the U.S. is not heart disease, not cancer, not any natural cause. It is murder by other blacks. More than 1 out of every 3 blacks who die in that age group is the victim of a homicide. Across America, particularly among the underclass in the nation's urban ghettos, brother is killing brother in a kind of racial fratricide. More than 40% of all the nation's murder victims are black, and 94% of those who commit these murders are black. The 6,000 or so Americans who lost their lives because...
Millions of black Americans have in fact clambered up the ladder to create a stable and growing black middle class. But there are two black Americas. The other is an entrenched underclass stuck at the very bottom of society. It is these blacks, an alarming percentage of them from fragmented families and households headed by women, who appear less capable of economic survival than the tenacious new immigrants...
Like most who came before them, the new immigrants are animated by the belief that America is the land of opportunity, and for many of them it is. Yet for much of the black underclass, America still seems to be the land of opportunity denied. In each case, the perception has often been fulfilled...