Sudhir

Type in the content of your page here. Gang Leader for a Day Questions Ch. 1 – 5 Use specific examples from the text to support your points. //Make sure to note page numbers so others can reference the text as needed. Feel free to respond to each other as well as to the question. You are required to respond a minimum of ONCE to EACH question. Alternatively, you can respond to two questions and pose one of your own questions. // It is easy to identify ways the lifestyle of the people living at Robert Taylor supports this argument, but how would others in the community refute this statement? Why do these citizens tolerate such inconvenience and neglect?
 * 1) Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative author, argues that contemporary black culture is pathological and uncivilized. It is defined by rampant crime and its glorification, sexual irresponsibility, and the persistent refusal to embrace basic mainstream values like hard work, thrift, responsibility, and honesty. On this account, civil rights and the equal protection of the laws have not brought social and economic equality, because African Americans suffer from severe cultural deficiencies that they refuse to address, preferring instead to blame their own failures on white racism that is no longer a serious obstacle to their progress.
 * 1) What do you think is the most difficult part of JT’s job, manager of a large underground economy? Why is it the most difficult part of his job?
 * 1) In Ch. 5, Sudhir states, “I was left discouraged by the sort of power bestowed upon building presidents like Ms. Bailey. People in this community shouldn’t have to wait more than a week to get a new front door. People in this community shouldn’t have to wonder if the ambulance or police would bother responding. People in this community shouldn’t have to pay a go-between like Ms. Bailey to get the services that most Americans barely bother to think about. No one in the suburb where I grew up would tolerate such inconvenience and neglect.” (pg. 183)