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Pressure Makes Diamonds. Valerie Graves
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isbn 9781617755200
Автор произведения Valerie Graves
Жанр Биографии и Мемуары
Издательство Ingram
If the furious looting and burning of stores and businesses had begun as an expression of anger at a system that seemed weighted against the poor, they also provided an opportunity for those same people to take advantage of the “five-finger discount” that broken and breached storefronts put in front of them. During the Detroit unrest, while Ruth Ann and I were visiting a friend in Pontiac, the girl’s male cousins came by and used the dining room table to gleefully divide the spoils from a looted Detroit liquor store they had hit that morning. Other people were clearly torn between their disapproval of the riot itself and their desire to grab some free stuff while the getting was good. One black woman, being interviewed by a local TV station, decried the rioters and their violence on camera, saying, “I think it’s terrible, just terrible,” while diligently searching for the mate to a shoe she had just scavenged from a looted footwear store.
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