Word: apartheid
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When Robinson took the field with the Dodgers for the first time on April 12, 1947, America was wallowing in apartheid. A year before Robinson's breakthrough, Major League Baseball had conducted a secret study of the impact of allowing black athletes to play the national game. It concluded that integrating the teams would not only offend white sensibilities but also lower the standard of play. Maybe someday, when blacks were ready, baseball could take the risk. How familiar these arguments sound a half-century later in the debate over affirmative action. It's not remarked on much these days...
...rogue terrorist-sponsoring nations such as Iran, Libya, and Syria in the Wilsonian hope that we will make them "safe for democracy?" (The U.S. is, incidentally, conspicuously alone in the crusade against these nations as well.) Were we not right to have imposed economic sanctions against South Africa during Apartheid in spite of the negative economic effects of the sanctions for both the United States and South Africa...
...confront the discomforting fact that each and every day millions of black Americans are unfairly denied employment and promotions, or insulted and intimidated at work. His arguments are not only unconvincing and ill-founded but are also representative of an ideology which seeks to defend the legacy of American apartheid and white supremacy: institutional racism. Instead of acknowledging the effects of racism and seeking to propose solutions, Leo brays about "bad publicity" and "questionable evidence." He fears that companies will "lurch toward a quota system," which may prevent discrimination lawsuits but will undermine meritocracy...
...analogous to the lynching of blacks in the South as a result of far less serious allegations (such as merely looking at white females or operating a successful business). That is to say nothing (as most Americans would prefer) of 244 years of enslavement, a legalized system of apartheid, and the disease of systematically entrenched racism that thrives to this...
That truth, in all its ugly detail, is emerging in affidavits by Jones and others before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the inquiry that convened last April to investigate and adjudge some of the worst abuses of apartheid. Many of those providing details are the killers themselves, eager to exchange information for the commission's promises of amnesty. Last month the commission disclosed that applications had been filed by a number of former security policemen in connection with the deaths of at least 10 antiapartheid activists, including Biko, as well as incidents of torture and assault, including...