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Why do so many of us remain indifferent when a bloodied face pops up bearing witness to our society’s vicious inequalities? This is the first question that always strikes me whenever I read a work like Piri Thomas’ 1967 novel, Down These Mean Streets, about the author’s ghetto youth in Spanish Harlem. The answer is not far off. It can be found in the book and it lies within me.