Slow Motion Riot

Is contained in

Original publication date

1991

People/Characters

Steven Baum; Darryl King; Robert Moses (real person: referenced, but doesn't appear as a character); Richard Silver (real person: referenced, but doesn't appear as a character)

Important places

New York, New York, USA

Epigraph

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we—and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, t... (show all)he consciousness of the others—do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything the fulfillment of that prophecy recreated from the Bible in a song by a slave is upon us: "God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time!"
― James Baldwin, 1962

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What crime and poverty have created is a riot in slow motion. - John V. Lindsay, 1990

Dedication

To Peg, who's been there too

First words

Now that the baby was two months old, she seemed to be waking up at least twice a night.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A chilling wind whips through the air, rustling the trees and the American Flag behind me.

Original language

English