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Pedidsits tae take In central Harlem, where Black Nationalism is probably stforigest 232,000 persons, nearly all of them Negro, Bre packed into 3 and one-half of New York City's 319 square miles. = >t The population density fs more than 106 persons per acre; narcotics addiction is nearly & times as high as the rate for the entire city; murders occur § times a% frequently; and 40 per cent of the people are housed in tenements built before 1900. The median family income is only $348) a year, compared to $3103 for the city. Training opportunities are few. Family instability is high. Half the children under 18 years of age do not live with both parents; by fhe time a child has reached the eighth grade his scholastic level lags about 2 and one-half years behind the city BVETEBE. 2 ep Bo, These figures noust cry out-to America. The nation must reorient itseff not: to punishment for crimes committed, but to ways of crime preventiotu in the broader seuse, Malcolm K is our victim. We are as guilty : and responsible for bis death as we are for the death af a president. It will not do to condemn the vidlence which killed him, or the violence he espoused, until we have wiped out the misery and ignorance which produces violence. Matcotm X is dead. But he is’ survived by his Harlem, the same y as yesterday, the-way white America created it, enentmmners cere teiebedeies mailer Stasi all Seema eget i te Rh belie ih Aiea . at perc