ABSTRACT
Black power, black capital, and welfare colonialism, as the model to describe the subjugation of black ghettos by whites, are what Don Schon called ideas in good currency, for they are widely accepted by the political right and left. And as do all currencies, they form a common basis for exchange and bargaining in the efforts to develop urban social policy. Norton Long's paper is an attempt to formulate a theory about ghetto instability. Perhaps then the only viable policy to pursue is an inconsistent one, simultaneously directed at the break-up of and the strengthening of the ghetto. To break up the ghetto, social policy must emphasize the reduction of inequalities of income; full employment, and a vigorous program to reduce "institutional racism rather than personal racism" by creating "social and economic institutions in which all peoples have a sense of identification".
