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14
ILIES
ITHOUT
-FATHERS
The crisis
in
the
ghetto
and whatyou
can do to stop it.
by
Earl H. Williams
O
N A
warm summer's
morning a man child
was born in the
ghetto. As his lonely
mother considered their fu–
ture , she cried. Thirteen
years later, on a cold winter's
night in the streets of the
ghetto, this man child was
killed in a gang shoot-out,
and bis mother cried.
This genocidal cycle of life and
death happens thousands of times
each year in u rban ghettos.
But where was the "man" who
made this child? Where was the
"father" that boy needed to guide
and save bis life? Why are so many
ghetto families without fathers?
In this article I am going to give
you the plain truth about the fam–
ily that must live in the ghetto. I
am going to show you the problems
and the solutions.
As a black husband and father
working in America's Jargest urban
city, New York, 1 see and deal
with the effects of the breakdown
of the family every day. 1 see a
whole class of people destroying
themselves. This is not just a black–
ghetto problem, it is affecting ev–
ery sector of our society-it is a
national crisis and is spreading to
all the world's urban areas.
And by the way, all black people
are not criminals or poor. Many
blacks are responsible, suocessful
people with stable families. Sorne
are middle class and úpper-middle
class and highly educated. But the
problem hits blacks of the ghetto
the hardest, and that is where we
must be most concerned .
Roots
The problems of the black family
in the ghetto are an exaggerated
microcosm of society as a whole.
The family is under attack in all
areas. Why should we be surprised
The
PLAIN TRUTH