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Some did, but too many others, invisible to white Detroit, did not. The riots that scorched the city in July 1967, leaving 43 people dead, were the product of an unarticulated racism that few had acknowledged, and a self-deceiving blindness that had made it possible for even the best-intentioned whites to ignore the straitjacket of segregation that had crippled black neighborhoods, ill served the equally divided schools and enabled the casual brutality of a police force that was too white and too loosely supervised.
The '67 riots sent thousands of white Detroiters fleeing for the suburbs. Even if black Detroiters with financial resources wished to follow, they could not: the de facto segregation was virtually de jure in most Detroit suburbs. One suburban mayor boasted, "They can't get in here. Every time we hear of a Negro moving in ... we respond quicker than you do to a fire."
A. 어휘
invisible 보이지 않는. riot 폭동. scorch 태우다, 그슬리다, 焦土化(초토화)하다.
unarticulated 발음하지 않은, 명료하지 않는. racism 인종차별주의.
self-deceiving 스스로를 속이는, 자기기만의.
best-intentioned 최고로 善意(선의)가 있는. ignore 무시하다.
straitjacket 구속복. segregation 인종분리. cripple 병신으로 만들다, 무력하게 만들다.
casual 우발적인. brutality 蠻行(만행), 잔인성. loosely 느슨하게, 대충.
supervise 감독하다, 관리하다. flee-fled-fled 도망가다.
boast 자랑하다.
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Soon Detroit became a majority-black city, and in 1973 it elected its first black mayor. Coleman Young was a talented politician who spent much of his 20 years in office devoting his talents to the politics of revenge. He called himself the "MFIC" the IC stood for "in charge," the MF for exactly what you think. Young was at first fairly effective, when he wasn't insulting suburban political leaders and alienating most of the city's remaining white residents with a posture that could have been summed up in the phrase Now it's our turn. But by his third term, Young was governing more by rhetoric than by action. These were the years of a local phenomenon known as Devil's Night, a nihilistic orgy of arson that in one especially explosive year saw 800 houses burn to the ground in 72 hours. Violent crime soared under Young. The school system began to cave in on itself. When jobs disappeared with the small businesses boarding up their doors and abandoning the city, the mayor seemed to find it more useful to bid the business owners good riddance than to address the job losses. Detroit was dying, and its mayor chose to preside over the funeral rather than find a way to work with the suburban and state officials who now detested him every bit as much as he had demonized them.
When Young finally left office in 1993, he bragged that Detroit had achieved a "level of autonomy ... that no other city can match." He apparently didn't care that it was the autonomy of a man in a rowboat, in the middle of the ocean, without oars.
A. 어휘
majority-black city 흑인이 다수인 도시. devote 헌신하다.
revenge 복수. stand for 나타내다. in charge 담당인, 맡은.
fairly=very. effective 유능한, 효율적인, 실제적인. insult 모욕하다.
suburban political leaders 교외에 거주하는 정치지도자(주로 백인부유층).
alienate 疏外(소외)시키다, 멀리하다. resident 주민. posture 뽐내는 몸짓, 자세.
sum up 요약하다. phrase 語句(어구). Now it's our turn. 이젠 우리 차례다.
term 任期(임기). rhetoric 美辭麗句(미사여구), 수사학.
local phenomenon 지역 현상. nihilistic 허무주의적인.
orgy 진탕 마시고 떠들기, 亂行(난행). arson 放火(방화). explosive 폭발의, 폭발물.
soar 치솟다, 날아 오르다. cave in 陷沒(함몰)되다. on itself 저절로.
board up 판자로 둘러싸다. abandon 버리다, 포기하다. riddance 모면하기, 제거.
bid ...good riddance 귀찮은 일에서 해방되었다고 말하다. 차라리 잘 되었다고 말하다.
address 위탁하다. address the job losses 일자리 상실을 막다.
preside over 主宰(주재)하다. funeral 장례식. state official 州(주)의 관리들.
detest 몹시 싫어하다, 미워하다. demonize 악마로 만들다, 악마로 취급하다.
brag 자랑하다. autonomy 자치. match 필적하다, 겨루다.
rowboat 노로 젓는 배. oar 노.
B. 구문
- When jobs disappeared with the small . . . doors and abandoning the city
cf. with+NOUN+ing/pp.→ 독립분사구문의 부대상황
ex. jobs disappeared, as the small businesses boarded up their doors. . .
→jobs disappeared, the small businesses boarding up their doors. . .
→jobs disappeared with the small businesses boarding up their doors. . .
[소기업들이 판자로 문을 폐쇄하고 도시를 버리고 떠나감에 따라 일자리는 사라져 버렸을 때]
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