European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sex the a decade hot i by David Lancford United prom  talk to the people who were in the cities under siege in that Long hat summer of and you get Lee feeling that 10 billions of Art and roams of legislation have not nude much Joseph a teenager at he helped serve refreshments to the National guard troops mobilized that july to put Down the rioting in Detroit that left dead and property damage estimated at he is Mack and now a Tome ways u might have been Teller said fwu Elvei Bear the Burntout build and weedy tots of twelfth Street where the riot at least a Tab we bad decent placet to whats there now a big Hole in the Yolanda now 44 and Given to wearing frayed Green Tennis shoes she Hustles from meeting to meet ing us head of the East Harlem tenants Council was a mediator Between police and the armed residents of Brooklyn District that bloody i listen she would they have More its not going to she remembers one replied i just got Back from i know How to i m on drugs cant find what the i already today Sanchez is bitter about what happened to her Page Ine puerto Picans have been completely unemployment among the puerto Picans is twice that of toe Whf ies and m times Hal of the Willie now was standing on the Corner of Jefferson Avenue in the thick of the rioting which broke out in on a sunday night in Luiree a Tew but i dont think it did no he said the other 1 didst have a Job then  but some simply dont give a about then or Gertrude now was a10 Yea rom color to her Booty from the Newark rioting which left w dead and millions of dollars in property v someone came up and told me 1 could get so 1 lumped out of she everyone else was wafting around with so 1 got myself a color i want angry at the Long m summer of it the year that of the problems that were ticked off in 1967 Are Are with us and in some cases Ore the stars and stripes the riot cry Burnt bom to Watts three years earlier a Todd be heard across Lite with the echoing of get the copt and cause it was the year of the while the Black youth peace and r rap Brown and Stokely Carrol Chael we need to be busting u was not the year of the first civil nor would it u the last the following Spring James Earl Bay would murder Martin Luther King and the pent up angers would explode again in Street Bui the loll in human agony and property damage from rioting that summer a decade ago was the in 20th Century r prom when civil rights activist Wharlest Jackson of waa killed in a  pickup until late when three nights of Rio Lenc erupted in new then considered a Model ally of race there were439 Tols or serious racial incidents in 1m cities Ami towns in virtually every Section of the at least w Penns were reported More Ihan were and More than were arrested As National guard troops and paratrooper a were called in to order in is of the properly damage in eight communities alone came to More than e50 the nation was at both in Southeast Asia and in its own inner and in both cases Washington pre scribed massive doses of Money and perhaps equally All of the problems Usu we Back to it Are Are with w la some Cam Are lays Carl Presl Ikot of the Urhan an organza tip born u the a Roou ten years ago there were 400 waste holding then there were no Black today then the number of Macks in Congress has thereto w and Blacks today Are convinced they put Carter in the White House and that should give i More clout Are beginning to Wonde Carter got the Urban vote was is pm form for my Nuro Anong jail and bringing Justice and integrity to the judicial Jac fios but the so reality is that the i this administration is but its programs Are palaeolithic the key economic ports held by natives and they always budget and unemployment in out which poor still on the Bottom of the state Hosea total Tell Ottber Eccl in opines that the m87 riots frustrations heightened by expectations brought a president Johnsons great society and Kings with All the fanfare of the signing of the expectations of simply did not i see a very similar thing happen log Black Black the elect i Peoples and again the  in study after study after the riot up reporters walking through the slums of Chicago and elsewhere found that in and education Are still severe but there is a sort of drug induced lethargy not so prevalent a decade r Jesse Jackson of National president of operation push and a former lieutenant in Kings Southern Christian leadership As opposed to the politics of right now were in the pm tics ofes Apison Blacki today Are doing something that More destructive than external they Are beginning to to afflict riots upon their bodies with extreme marijuana and premature not enough too Many the complaint was voiced Over and on the the Black Community is worse off than it was in said cart vice president of a Black Community improvement group that helped Auer the rioting in particularly among Black s at the highest Levels we have a More severe drug problem the department of education and welfare estimates there Are at least heroin addict to Detroit where the population is m per cent but in contrast to Black today doot com 14 loudly in hit Poth Brit tally and Pili help Tell the teenager when there police Joseph Aexander Detroit police Force that is 25 per i