Word: segmenting
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...only were the demands weak, but a large segment of the community noted that the middle-class blacks and whites who had long made NAACP so weak were the "spokesmen" the mayor heard...
...conceived and arranged. But those who attended came in an effort to listen, and to help the Black Panthers-as they would help any group-to secure the due process of law to which they are entitled. They were trying to open a dialogue with an almost totally alienated segment of the community...
...love the common people, but unfortunately a sizable segment of the nation's population has been feeling exceptionally common and dangerously unloved. Last week the White House studied a confidential Government report on the discontent, disappointment and disaffection of the large and potentially volatile lower middle class...
Worse, the most crime-prone segment of the population?poor urban youths aged 15 to 24?will increase disproportionately at least until 1975. Sheer demography adds a racial factor: half the nation's blacks are under 21. Though victims of black crime are overwhelmingly black, it is chiefly young black males who commit the most common interracial crime: armed robbery...
...left ?? may solidify in the next few ?? into one basic division. Splintering in the left is an old phenomenon. Some of the groups at the conference split up from each other decades ago. What has intensified the situation, however, is the involvement in the antiwar movement of the liberal segment of the country. There are many different reasons for being against the Vietnam war, and the unification of those with different motives has led to some strange bedfellows. As the former allies become more intimately acquainted, they begin to see that their unity is illusory...