Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights of Blacks should be protected, he implies that Blacks as a group are victims of discrimination because they have not "made it" in white middle-class society. This assertion, I believe, is untrue. I propose that the majority of Blacks in this country are not members of the underclass. Not only are most Black people not poor, but most poor people are not Black...
...door of the jewelry store was not a thief? Well, then he, like most Blacks who would have been in such a situation, probably was somebody with the means to make purchases at a jewelry store and not likely to be a food stamps-carrying member of the urban underclass...
About 6 percent of America's 33.1 million poor, however, make up a perminent "underclass" in minority-dominated inner-city ghettos, said Loury, who is considered an expert in the field...
...decades ago it was fashionable to say, 'to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim.' That line just is not tenable," said Loury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuates their role as an underclass...
...decades ago it was fashionable to say, `to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim.' That line just is not tenable,"saidLoury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuates their role as an underclass...