There's a really close parallel to France. High unemployment, low family income, inferior education and training, inadequate housing, a great deal of hostility toward the police - we found that the level of hostility in the black sections of these cities was high enough that almost any random spark would set them off. -Fred Harris

 

There's a really close parallel to France. High unemployment, low family income, inferior education and training, inadequate housing, a great deal of hostility toward the police - we found that the level of hostility in the black sections of these cities was high enough that almost any random spark would set them off.


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I think its a tragedy because its hard to find a school that's going to help teen moms.

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There's a really close parallel to France. High unemployment, low family income, inferior education and training, inadequate housing, a great deal of hostility toward the police - we found that the level of hostility in the black sections of these cities was high enough that almost any random spark would set them off. -Fred Harris
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The feeling is that a line that is modeled will rent more quickly than one that is not.

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