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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 02:58 AM
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Herbert(NYT) - Black, Dead and Invisible
I once had a young black girl, whose brother had been murdered, tell me she was too old to dream. She was 12.

I remember a teenager in South-Central Los Angeles a few years ago saying, in a discussion about his peers, "Some of us don't last too long."

Don't bother cueing the violins. This is an old story. There's no shock value and hardly any news value in yet another black or brown kid going down for the count. Burying the young has long since become routine in poor black and Latino neighborhoods. Nobody gets real excited about it. I find that peculiar, but there's a lot about the world that I find peculiar.

more, if you can stand it...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/opinion/08herbert.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:41 AM
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1. Thanks for posting that. It is almost as if with the War in Iraq - some
Americans feel free to just forget anything but patriotism and all that self-love. And they don't have to look at the problems anymore. Cause there is a big huge war somewhere else to watch on the TV.

I can only guess what the inner cities will look like in 50 years when there is no more oil. Gentrified, gentrified, gentrified. As people with money back to them.

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