Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...song Cop Killer is as bad as they come. This is black anger -- raw, rude and cruel -- and one reason the song's so shocking is that in postliberal America, black anger is virtually taboo. You won't find it on TV, not on the McLaughlin Group or Crossfire, and certainly not in the placid features of Arsenio Hall or Bernard Shaw. It's been beaten back into the outlaw subcultures of rap and rock, where, precisely because it is taboo, it sells. And the nastier it is, the faster it moves off the shelves. As Ice-T asks...
...politics- as-usual propels his anti-campaign. Yet Perot has turned over management of his crusade to a bipartisan corps of political pros who exemplify everything Perot says he opposes. Their efforts to transform Perot's volunteer army into a more traditional campaign brigade have sown widespread resentment and anger among his early enlistees...
That the White House has begun to resort to that least persuasive of arguments fully four months before the election suggests how clouded Bush's political future has become. The President of late seems more melancholy than usual, flashing with uncharacteristic anger in public, seemingly haunted by unseen furies. At a political fund raiser in Detroit last week, he complained that this "weird, peculiar" political season comprised little more than "endless polls, weird talk shows, crazy groups every Sunday telling you what you think." But less than 48 hours later, Bush himself was appearing live from the Rose Garden...
...Both the anger and the human sympathy that animate What It Takes are rooted in this perception. Cramer believes with some justice that the rituals of presidential politics (the sound-bite speeches, the handlers, the mind-numbing travel and the press claque with its self-aggrandizing agenda) end up blinding us to who the candidates actually are and what their life histories represent. "I wanted to know not about the campaign, but about the campaigners," Cramer explains in his introduction. For what fascinates him is "how people like us -- with dreams and doubts, great talents and ordinary frailties...
...resentments stirred by the Los Angeles riots, a still sour economy and a resurgent nativism may help swell the ranks of the K.K.K. In striking down a St. Paul ordinance last week that prohibited speech or behavior likely to arouse "anger or alarm" on the basis of "race, color, creed, religion or gender," the Supreme Court sought to protect free speech. But the incident that inspired the case in the first place -- a cross burning on the lawn of a black family -- led some to predict that the ruling would make it harder to prosecute hate crimes. Said Danny Welch...