Word: flatbush
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...more serious drawback is Dinkins' reluctance to attack problems in a direct and forceful way. Since January, for example, the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocery stores that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. The shopowners obtained a civil court injunction ordering the protesters to remain at least 50 ft. away from the shops' entrances, but Dinkins has not ordered the police to enforce it. Instead, he appointed a commission to review his handling...
Butts had a point. Since January, Brooklyn's Flatbush section had been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocers that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture...
...their entire families to work at low, if any, wages, toil incredibly long hours and still average between $17,000 and $35,000 in annual profits per family. Leaders in both communities have worked to bridge differences. "We should help each other," says Park Won Chan, wholesaler for a Flatbush grocery. Adds Jong H. Chai, manager of a nearby fruit and vegetable shop: "This is not Africa. This is not Korea. This is America. I don't understand...