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Article: Racism on run: Reaction to Howard Beach attack proves it
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 21, 1987
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Every day, in virtually every large American city, white people
are mugged, raped and killed by young black thugs,
and it is all taken more or less for granted. Why then should so
much attention have been paid to the attack on a group of blacks by a
gang of young white thugs in the Howard Beach section of Queens a few
weeks ago? Trying to find an honest answer to that question may not
be the worst use of one's time during the week of Martin Luther King
Jr.'s birthday. It might also teach us something about the condition
of white racism in America.
The first point that needs to be made in the interest of honesty
is that the startled reaction to Howard Beach demonstrates how
unusual such ...