Word: despairingly
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...constantly and easily we are seduced by violence, not only as a method but as to an end in itself. With very little politics, very little ethics, very little direction and only a minimum of moral sense, if any at all, it might lead one to conclude in despair: the movement is debased beyond recognition. I can't be part...
...disgust with the very system blacks are trying to use to their advantage ("It takes your soul and it gives you a color TV set in return"). Educated black men and women may indeed never have had a better opportunity to get a piece of the action, but poverty, despair, hopelessness still haunt the nation's ghettos; all too many black Americans remain preoccupied with sheer survival. In fact, the gap between white and black family income overall continues to widen, despite remarkable gains by educated urban black families in the North and West. "How can people be uptight...
...helped. The unemployment rate for blacks (9.5%) is almost twice as large as for whites (5.6%). For young blacks between the ages of 16 and 22 it approaches 40%, nearly three times as high as for their white peers, and that does not count those who, in total despair, have dropped out of the search for work altogether. Job programs have been cut, housing remains dismal, education still fails to motivate...
...embedded their rage is or how it might show in a sudden crisis. Conventional wisdom today has it that Watts and Newark and Detroit are not likely to happen again because they were pyrrhic, whatever their short-term value in bringing home to white America the depths of black despair. True, the riots were never part of a black revolutionary strategy as such; they grew out of combustible situations in which frustration finally vented itself, almost incoherently. Because that frustration is still a major facet of black life, similar emotional eruptions cannot be ruled out in the future. Still...
...Everyone is, in some sense, in despair," said assistant professor Martin H. Peretz, a member of the Student-Faculty Indochina Teach-In Committee which is sponsoring the meeting. "I think that we should be in informed despair...