Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question the existence of racism. Yet many Americans of color do extraordinarily well. I do not, in addition, question affirmative action in principle--if it aims at giving all those of socio-economically deprived, underprivileged, or educationally less rigorous backgrounds the equal opportunity to succeed. That goes for poor African-Americans from Watts or Brownsville; but it should also apply to destitute whites from bankrupt mining communties in rural West Virginia; Vietnamese boat people; inner-city Koreans; Chinese political refugees and any other group whose social and economic backgrounds deprive them of the same opportunities as the sons and daughters...
...always ask myself the same question: why doesn't anyone discuss the minorities who are doing very well without it? Certainly there exists racism against Asians, probably of as strong a variety as any prejudice toward Hispanics or Native Americans (two minority groups who, with African-Americans, benefit most often from affirmative-action policies). Many Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America from societies just as violent, environments just as depressed, as any Hispanic or African-American does. Surely, it is harder to learn English as a first-or second-generation Asian-American than a native Spanish speaker...
...fact that the ANC resorted to terrorism against South African civilians in the latter years of the struggle to end Apartheid undoubtedly caused the group to simplisticly infer connections with the causes of Arafat, Qaddafi and more recently, Assad. The ANC's associations with the pariahs of the world delegitimized an otherwise legitimate cause and only made it more difficult for the ANC's non-Marxist, non-terrorist sympathizers to support them. Pretoria's continued pursuit of these relationships in the face of Western objections raises important foreign policy considerations for Washington...
...have several students last year who requested to have African-American mentors, and we worked that out," she says...
...windows" model, cops started arresting people for "life-style" offenses like public drunkenness. Giuliani's liberal predecessor David Dinkins couldn't use broken windows to evade the fiscal-austerity dilemma, because it required taking on minority-group leaders and civil libertarians who viewed these arrests as the harassment of African-American and Latino men. Giuliani did, and thereby won the hearts of outer-borough Democrats already hostile to Messinger's brand of upper-middle-class Manhattan liberalism. By making New Yorkers feel safer, he transformed the city's politics...