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Victims of the Changes

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Code of the Street
Elijah Anderson

Blacks have always been apart from the dominant society, and they have always been segregated and beset by the problems that come with segregation. The past thirty years have brought a greater inclusion of blacks in American society and a sharing of its fruits, but these developments have most often helped those blacks who were ready to take advantage of them–the middle classes, the educated people. The poor, who lack the skills, the education, and the outlook to take advantage of these new opportunities, have been not beneficiaries but more often victims of the changes.