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culture, and health and HIV. And also about institutions
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at a time when our country's becoming deinstitutionalized.
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So, you see people who've been going to the community centers for 10 years - that's where they go.
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That's where their boys are, that's where they hang. Now, there's no community center.
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You have set somebody loose from an institution.
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And we've done that massively. Not only with families -
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40% of all African-American families, about 25% of all white ones,
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survive off poverty, not on poverty, just above the poverty line,
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because women are working. So, children have decimated institutions in terms of family.
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We're talking about our public institutions crumbling.
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We're talking about our schools crumbling.
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We're talking about other things crumbling. So, issues of safety and security are intertwined,
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and people essentially do not find safety, do not find security, are cocooning,
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and what do people do when they go in like that?
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I have been told that I have to stop talking in a couple of minutes.
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What I think happens - I mean, I think you can take this to its logical conclusion
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in terms of talking about the politics of alienation.
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On one hand you have a lot of urban conflict
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that is a function of everyone feeling there's not a piece of the pie for them.
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It's easy to stay close to African-Americans, because we're visible.
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It's a black thing. You got to underastand.
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When somebody turns on their TV and they see a black woman reading the news,
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they figure we got all the jobs. That is one job.
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Who [[[inaudible]] [[laughter]]
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[[laughter]] [[clapping]] Who's behind the camera? Who's producing? Who's making the decisions, all the way down the line.
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But you get this kind of rhetoric about, well, "I think they should be able to compete with the rest of us."
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There has never been any competition, except for the competition of the wealthy to keep all the wealth.
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You know, be real, be very real about that.
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So, you get, first of all, I mean my not-nice line from 1991,
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I can use it two more weeks, I think, is that a skin-head is nothing but a white boy without a job.
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But essentially, hey find that bad boy and make him grow hair.
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First of all, you know. Give him some skills. He don't have no time to run around making hate phone calls.
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You know? Put him on the train and have him do some work.
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Literally. The alienation comes from white youth, the alienation comes from black youth,
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until you get this in-your-face ice cube saying,
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Yeah I want to kill this one, Yeah I want to this thing -- he is saying what we all feel.
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"Where is there space for us in the economy? Where is space for us
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