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Sligar and Son has the air, at least, of being a drama of contemporary racial strife. The setting is a ghetto grocery store in pre-riot Newark. The characters refer to black people as "blacks" and white people as "honkies." Still, I have my doubts as to whether Hoye actually knows any more about the ghetto than Spiro Agnew. His one-act play is not about black power or slum despair or even law and order as much as he would like us to believe it is. Rather, it is the story of a simple white bigot whose son rejects...
...Jersey: Newark was the scene of a battle between demonstrators and counterprotestors...
...communities that have experienced serious disorders and high crime incidence and where racial tension is a constant fact of life, there is a desperate urge to do something, almost anything. Firearms sales are at an alltime high. In Newark, a white organization, the North Ward Citizens Committee, has been openly arming for "self-defense." Elsewhere, store owners are organizing self-protection groups. In Kansas City, 25 merchants in a racially mixed neighborhood are threatening to close their shops en masse...
...down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting in a few of the riots, particularly Newark and Detroit, killed innocent citizens is forgotten, and the fact that police gunfire can prolong and worsen the initial disturbance is often overlooked...
State of War. The Panthers are the largest and fastest growing of the ultraradical Negro groups. Lately, Panthers have been opening dingy storefront headquarters in Los Angeles, Seattle, Newark and Washington, D.C. Chapters are rapidly being established by Stokely Carmichael, who, along with some other former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has switched to the Panthers. Estimates of their national membership run from just under 1,000 to upwards...