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“MANCHILD IN THE PROMISSED LAND”
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Children playing in the backyards full of garbage in Harlem. Text in my slideshow: “The most indescribable and distressing suffering I have met is that which befalls the children, and which is helping to mold and cripple their minds and entire being for life. Not only those children who are forced to imitate begging dogs in order to survive the violence of the system - or those children who are trying to get a penny by polishing windows for white drivers at the stoplights; what impression does it make on children when they experience their sisters and brothers being shot and killed in the street? When I was teaching a school class in Harlem, I discovered that there was not a single one of the pupils who had not experienced shoot-outs in the streets, where bullets hit even the most innocent child. They refused to believe that I came from a country with no guns. “How do people defend themselves?” they would ask.” Harlem, New York 1975 (us-00070)