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- LETTERS, Page 6Death in Bensonhurst
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- Some members of the Bensonhurst community were heard
- proclaiming their 100% Italian origins to the African-American
- demonstrators who marched through their neighborhood mourning
- Yusuf Hawkins' murder (NATION, Sept. 11). It made me think of
- the black American G.I.s who fought in Italy during World War
- II, trying to rid that ancient land of its homegrown Fascist
- regime and its Nazi allies. Funny how one generation's savior
- is another's "animal, crackhead, nigger," to name a few of the
- epithets hurled at the peaceful marchers.
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- LeRoy Woodson Jr. Seal Beach, Calif.
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- You say that "there are streets in white America where a
- black man dares not tread." You neglected to add, "There are
- streets in black America where a white man dares not tread."
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- Lee Mulrooney Royal Oak, Mich.
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