Moreover. there are millions of poor but upstanding Negro citizens who deplore violence and disorder and who do not subscribe to riots. If living in poverty reposes in one a duty or a right to riot. then Abraham Lincoln would have been the Stokely Carmichael of his day. Discrimination. we hear. is back of the riots. yet. millions of lowly immigrants have come to this country. immigrants who could not even speak the English language and who were thus placed at an additional great disadvantage. The Lebanese. the Germans. the Italians. the Poles. the Greeks. the Jews. and othersthey too were discriminated against. but they did not react with violence in the streets. They also lived in ghettos but they kept their ghettos clean. Their ghettos did not become slums. The immigrants reacted to the discrimination against them in a totally different way. When they could not find work. they created it by setting up their own little shops. Their ghettos did not become slums. They became homes. where they gave thanks for what they had earned. These immigrants did not believe that they had a right to demand handouts. nor did they believe that they had a right to plunder or to burn or to destroy or to kill. Eradicate the slums. we are told. and this will prevent riots. Yet.
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Immigrants are hard-working, clean, and do not resort to violence or demand handouts.