Instead. I saw the other face of America. the America of ugly streets and rotted buildings. the America of congestion. illiteracy and want. the America of shattered expectations and rising fury. This is the America of the inner city. jam packed with refugees from rural areas. who came to an alien environment unprepared but hopeful of opportunity. only to have the dehumanizing trap of the ghetto shut around them. This is the America where ten people live crammed Into two small rooms where a four room flat has only one light bulb where children sleep five in a bed where the accumulated litter and filth of many years breeds rats. roaches and foul odors. This is the America where men who want work cannot find it either because they lack needed skills. or because they cannot read and write and figure well enough to take advantage of job training programs. or because they find the doors to jobs for which they may be qualified slammed shut by racial and class discrimination.
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