Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's support is made up of three legs: older voters, women and African Americans. Though Dole is one of their own generation, seniors, the people most concerned about Medicare, tilt strongly to Clinton. So do women, who favor him over Dole, 53% to 37%. Dole wins the men by a smaller margin, 48% to 43%. With Powell gone, African Americans flip overwhelmingly back to Clinton...
...AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN SING AMERICA...
...down to what you think of history and what a group's proper role in history should be. I would like all groups to claim their rightful place in history, but not at the expense of shunning mainstream history. Must a group's history, such as that of the African Americans or Native Americans, always be special? That would mean that their historical role isn't mainstream, which would mean that we wouldn't otherwise have learned of it unless there was some special reason...
...mean the bad parts. While there have been some very good periods in the histories of every ethnic group, the bad parts always stand out. As a result, the history of ethnic groups in the United States is almost entirely bad. Whether it is the slavery and segregation of African-Americans, the virtual genocide of Native Americans or the racial prejudice against Asian Americans in California in the 19th century, people are almost always tempted to look at what went wrong instead of what went right. And by looking at what went wrong, ethnic groups often become very emotional about...
...only way to destroy any malignant racism that we see hurting the African-American race is to change our frames of mind. You cannot change other people's minds when it comes to things that they strongly believe in, such as abortion or race relations, be as it may that their opinions are formed or a rational or irrational basis...