D. blacks can never become America s President
VI. Questions on the Article
1. Why were those low-income teen-agers who came to the Perrywood community consid-ered to be “the eyesore”?
2. What is the surprising twist of the story?
3. According to this article, what has caused much of the white-black income gap?
4. Why did the presidential Kerner Commission conclude that the nation s future was menaced by “accelerating segregation”?
5. Why wouldn t questions as “Should negroes have as good a chance as white people to get any kind of job?” be asked today?
Topics for Discussion
1. Can you tell briefly the dramatic progress in the status of America s minority people over the last half-century?
2. Do you think the article is unbiased? What do you think of the author s view on the African-Americans?
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