PEDIATRICS Vol. 63 No. 5 May 1979, pp. 781
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THE DISPENSABLE CHILDREN

Ned O'Gorman

The children who come to me are children who exist in a colonial "outpost" of the American empire. I have been eleven years in Harlem, eleven full years: I have watched a place on this earth decay while the nation in which that place exists grows in power and wealth. It is an if Harlem, like Biafra or the gutters of Calcutta, had become a dispensable part of the fabric of national life. Nothing has happened in eleven years to make one jot of difference in the lives of the children conceived during that time or in the lives of the children who came to my nursery since 1966.