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were living in a twentieth century version of a colony, a social, educational and economic colony that was as effectively administered and controlled from outside as was the American colony in 1776, or the Vietnamese colony before the Vietnamese people decided they could rule themselves better than could any Frenchman or Japanese or Americans, for that matter.

This colony has all the hallmarks of the classic colony: powerlessness, dependence upon the mother coutnry for goods and services, subconstitutional status. It is a colony reflecting the centuries-old existence of the twin societies, separate but unequal, that we are warned may occur if present day American society doesn't shape up.

Ours is a euphemistic, hypocritical society, and consequently little or nothing is done in its own name. Schools are segregated, not to keep blacks separate but to "preserve the neighborhood school." Police are given and exercise excessive power in the ghetto not because

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