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Article: Blacks, Jews, liberals, and crime: is the black-crime problem a crime problem, or is it a poverty problem, or an education problem? (various political leaders and analysts offer contrasting opinions)
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- National Review
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- May 16, 1994
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Is the black-crime problem a crime problem, or is it a poverty problem, or an education problem? New York's former mayor offers a diagnosis; other doctors disagree.
In 1964, I, along with thousands of other young en and women, went to Mississippi and elsewhere in the South to assist in the program initiated by black organizations to register black voters. The group was mostly white and preponderantly Jewish.
I spent a week in Mississippi, and the only place I felt comfortable was in the black community, either in the church where we met to plan strategy, or in the homes of black citizens where I spent each night. Everywhere else, in Jackson and in ...