from SLATE on-line magazine, 02/08/01:
>The [Wall Street JOURNAL] front disturbs with a feature about race
>relations in Bowie, Maryland. The town had been virtually all-white until
>the 90s, when a growing number of blacks moved in and nowadays, it's 30
>percent black. And most of the blacks in town make more money and have
>larger homes on larger lots than the whites do. But the past few years
>have seen "KKK" and other racist graffiti spray-painted on black homes,
>open anger by whites based on their perception that blacks increasingly
>control the public schools, and even some white demands that the city
>secede from the predominantly black county it sits in. "It used to be that
>whites didn't like you because you're dirty, you don't work, you're poor,"
>a black Bowie resident, a lawyer, tells the paper. "Now I have more money
>than you, more education, a bigger house--and you still don't like me.
>Where else do you have a class war like this? If we were white they would
>be happy."
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
