Apartheid. USA 1988

April 29, 1987:

Governor Mario Cuomo of New York called on business leaders to undertake a campaign of training and guiding minority-group youths. Saying that racial tensions in New York had worsened and hinting at possible violence this summer, he hoped the business-leaders would comply out of ‘love’. But at the very least, he said, they should comply out of self-interest. ‘You want to talk about racism in terms that are going to get to your pocket-book?’ the Governor asked his audience at the New York Hilton Hotel. ‘The majority of the work-force in this country in the 21st cen-

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tury is going to be minority. Now, one out of two of them is being raised in poverty. What kind of work-force are you going to have? Who are going to be your sophisticated people who will outthink the Japanese and the West Germans? How are you going to make it without them? You can't move away from them,’ Mr Cuomo said, referring to blacks and other minority groups.^91.

91. The New York Times, from a report by Jeffrey Schmalz