![]() Many parents lost sleep at night fretting over their teenage children succumbing to the freshly mainstreamed temptations of marijuana and premarital sex. And as the city’s economy spiraled downward, the result of stagflation, the oil crisis and deindustrialization, they found a ready villain in affirmative action, a cousin to welfare fraud, both of them examples of blacks taking something they didn’t deserve right out of white folks’ thin wallets. As parochial school parents whose children were safe from court-mandated school desegregation, they still joined the cry against “forced busing,” which they considered a form of utopian social engineering perpetrated by out-of-touch elites. ![]() ![]() Some of them patrolled our neighborhood at night, their eyes alert for any black person lurking on a white-only block, who could be there for only one reason: to commit a crime. I didn’t know about “acid, amnesty and abortion” at the tender age of 10, but my parents did–as did most of my classmates’ moms and dads. ![]()
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