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...What Yankee pitcher put it all together in 1970 to become the first New York lefty since Whitey Ford to win 20 games...
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was too sensitive a man to ignore the hurt of being called "Uncle Whitney" or "Whitey Young" by black extremists. Nor did he enjoy being labeled a "moderate," when he felt as angry and as militant about white racism as any of his brothers. Young spent many tortured nights talking out his anguish with close friends. Yet he always concluded that his own popularity was irrelevant to what he felt he could do best to aid black progress: awaken white corporate boardrooms to the economic injustice of discrimination against blacks. When Young, 49, died last week...
...himself, Young chose a colonial home in New Rochelle, a New York suburb. But as his commuter train rolled through Harlem each workday, Young was troubled. "Should I get off this train this morning and stand on 125th Street cussing Whitey to show I am tough?" he once mused. "Or should I go downtown and talk to an executive of General Motors about 2,000 jobs for unemployed blacks?" Young, a civil rights leader who was interested above all in results, remained on the train...
There are no blacks in El Monte: in fact, blacks call it "whitey's town." The prejudice against blacks is unspoken, but it is well understood. During a public meeting, a former city employee spoke of their absence in the community; he was ignored by city officials and later privately chewed out by them. El Monte calls itself the first "all-American" community in Los Angeles County. Ironically, it is now fast becoming a Mexican-American stronghold, with a Chicano population estimated at between 35% and 50%. There are increasing strains. An El Monte policeman was shot and left...
...idea of being supported by women. Besides, in the black community there is no loss of status in making money from sex. Quite the contrary. Pimping is a way of striking out at the white man by taking his money-and his women too. By "gaming off" Whitey, the black pimp becomes a folk hero, the Jesse James of the ghetto...