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bgood life that allows problems to simmer. But they existed, and bthey have emerged today in all their fury. More than twenty-five bmillion blacks are “different,” very different. In the sixties they bbroke through resignation and apathy. They burned, looted, bkilled. It is not over. The hate remains and the blood has been btasted. bAnd there are the Hispanics: millions of Chicanos in the bSouthwest and California, Puerto Ricans in the slums of the bEast and Midwest. The same ingredients of the black mixture bexists for them, but more so, for the Hispanics have territorial bdemands. For the Puerto Ricans there is the cry of “Viva Puerto bRico Libre!” Since 1974 the terrorist F.A.L.N. has claimed re- bsponsibility for more than 100 bombings that killed five people. bAttacks on U.S. troops in Puerto Rico have taken place. Plans bhad been made to attack the Democratic National Convention bin New York in 1980. bFor the Chicanos there is the Southwest, once Spanish, part bof Mexico, taken by the United States in the nineteenth century. bAbsurd? Not to the millions of Chicanos who live there—and bwho grow more militant. bAnd there are the American Indians and their International bIndian Treaty Council, who told a UN Conference of Dis- bcrimination Against the Indigenous Populations of the Americas bthat the United States is stealing “their resources.” And the bEskimos of Alaska, who have joined with those of Canada and bGreenland to form the Inuit (Eskimo) Circumpolar Assembly. bAt the first conference in Barrow, Alaska, they declared: “The bInuit of Greenland, Alaska, and Canada are one indivisible peo- bple with a common language, culture, environment, and con- bcerns.” bBlacks, Hispanics, Indians, Eskimos, Orientals—the mak- bing of a minority coalition of forty or fifty million people who are bdifferent from the majority, different from each other. Different and un- bhappy. bThis is the world of many, many worlds. It is a fragmented, bseparate, and individualistic world in which each group seeks bidentity, separation, the right to be itself and decide its own des- btiny. bFor the Jews to believe that the Israeli Arab, with every bpossible difference imaginable, will quietly cede his destiny to b
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