Robert Kennedy was once asked what he would do if he were President.
He replied, “First, I would ask the heads of the three major networks
to produce as rapidly as possible – and run in prime time – a two hour
documentary showing what it was like to live in a ghetto.
Let them show the sound, the feel, the hopelessness, and what its like
to think you’ll never get out.
Show the black teenager, told
by some radio jingle to stay in school, looking at his older brother – who
stayed in school – and who’s out of a job.
Show the Mafia pushing narcotics, put a Candid Camera in a ghetto
school and what a rotten system of education it really is.
Film a mother staying up all night keep the rats from her baby…Then
I’d ask people to watch it – and experience what it means to live in the most
affluent society in history – without hope.”
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