So blacks lack the reserve of money and property needed to buy a house, to finance a college education, to weather a personal catastrophe or a national recession.

Campanis's startling reply, that blacks might lack "some of the necessities" to fill those jobs, led to the loss of his job.

Like some other African-American business owners in the city, Mr. Bennett complains that blacks lack the unity and community spirit to achieve success here.

Smoky blacks, however, will lack rich red tones in the coat, instead favoring chocolate and orange tones.

To their thinking, blacks simply lacked the character to judge other people's fates.

In 1984, he started wooing the black community, which had been outraged by Bill Coors's remarks earlier that year that blacks lacked "intellectual capacity to succeed."

(Campanis, then the Dodgers' general manager, told a national television audience he believed, among other things, that blacks lacked the ability to handle administrative positions.)

It was believed that he was gathering information to show that blacks, African-Americans, lacked certain cognitive abilities based on their genetic makeup.

Apparently blacks and Latin Americans do lack the necessities: They don't have the right skin color.

Despite these victories, various black politicians said, blacks still lack the power to make executive decisions that would come from a citywide office.