Gracie Mansion: For Whites Only Plus Cash, Part 2

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Harlem represented many challenges in poverty law similar to the plight of the poor in New Orleans. Blacks, trapped in poverty, have few, if any, options. Starting in 1974, I worked for Harlem Assertion of Rights. As a poverty lawyer, without a conflict of interest, it is inevitable that you step on politicians' toes.

Elected officials and lawyers were working feverishly, in 1974, to remove Blacks from Harlem, which had become a manmade disaster. The seeds planted in those years have ripened in 2005. Harlem's culture has been bleached. No people can survive the destruction of its culture.

The late Jack Newfield's fingerprints were all over [Herman Badillo]'s nomination. Rev. Calvin Butts and then Assemb. Al Vann spearheaded a group that favored Badillo. Attorney Louis Clayton Jones and his brother, Dr. William A. Jones, spearheaded a group that supported [Herman "Denny" Farrell] who won the nod. Latinos later heckled Farrell at City Hall. A civil war, between some Blacks and Latinos, is still in play.

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Gracie Mansion: For Whites Only Plus Cash, Part 2

After I finished law school, I wanted to practice poverty law (law of oppression). You never hear this term today even though poverty is rampant. This absence of legal representation allows the legal system to easily warehouse the poor and for multinational corporations to reap its highest profits from transactions with the poor.

Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was as...

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