Climate Of Violence
June, 1967
Does violence have a climate? I am not talking only of the "long hot summers" of 1965 and 1966, when violence crackled in almost every major ghetto from Harlem to Watts: It is less a physical than a social and moral climate I have in mind. I am asking about the line that can be drawn from hate and frustration to mass death.Consider some of the acts of violence that have thrust this question at us in the past three or four years: the killing of an American President; the wave of terror...
