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I'm with you on that, Xeno...
Nevertheless, the word "Ghetto" already had a complete meaning. The civil rights types usurped the word for their own purpose. I have absolutely no quarrel with their goals, and not even necessarily a quarrel with their taking the word, but my purpose in that book segment was to show how the same process has been used by the Greens for nefarious reasons.

posted by arGee on November 14, 2006 at 4:35 PM | link to this | reply

RE: GHETTO

You are correct that there is no "legal" restriction of African Americans to certain areas; however, up until the 50's there was de facto restriction -- Blacks were indeed restricted by many things to certain areas.  It seems laws were passed -- I would have to look into that -- I have heard whites here in St. Louis comment that the city should not have dropped a certain restriction of Blacks to a certain area.

doesn't take laws to make a ghetto.

posted by Xeno-x on November 14, 2006 at 2:42 PM | link to this | reply