Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...racial composition includes 18 percent Asian Americans, 9.9 percent African Americans, 3.7 percent Hispanic Americans, 3.1 percent Mexican Americans, 1.75 percent Puerto Ricans, and 0.6 percent Native Americans...
Just as white people were a crucial part of the civil rights struggle of African-Americans, just as men stood beside women to seek equality of the sexes, straight people are an integral part of the fight for gay rights. In churches, in the media, in Congress and on campus, heterosexuals can speak with tremendous power and influence precisely because they are heterosexual--because they directly counter stereotypes and prejudices...
Hillary insisted that Goree Island be included on the President's African tour, according to White House sources, because she felt it would be the emotional high point of his trip. Of course, she knows her man. This is a President who connects with blacks so strongly that some of us jokingly maintain that he's only passing for white. No President has forged such abiding personal relationships with African Americans, or put so many in positions of real authority. That helps to explain why blacks, more than any other group, have remained loyal to Clinton through his current ordeal...
...slavery. White House spokesman Mike McCurry has already declared that the President will not make such a gesture on this trip because "that is not an issue that is central in the minds of many Americans." But surely Clinton knows that it is on the minds of many African Americans, who are convinced that the great rift between the races cannot be healed until America seeks forgiveness for one of the most monstrous eras in history. What better place to ask forgiveness than Goree Island, the scene of the crime...
...might have anticipated. Despite a sound relationship with Africa?s economically strongest nation and an emotional celebration of Nelson Mandela?s achievement, the visit produced moments of discord: Not only did Mandela make a spirited defense of his relationships with the likes of Cuba, Libya and Iran, the South African president also publicly criticized President Clinton?s African trade bill for its ?trade-not-aid? formulation, and for seeking to set political limits on trade by African countries. But his two days on safari in Botswana aren?t likely to yield any such nasty surprises -- not unless he gets...