Word: blackbuck
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...upshot, concludes Wallace, is that black men bought the racist "blackbuck" image of themselves. They became content to mouth slogans ("Black Power") and affect Afro hairdos and guns, and all but abandoned effective political action. "Come 1966," says Wallace in her polemic style, "the black man had two pressing tasks before him: a white woman in every bed and a black woman under every heel." In response, she says, black women became more submissive and, despite the image of some social scientists of black society as a matriarchy, no longer behaved like the mythic black superwoman...
...thing, huge numbers of cattle have denuded vegetation, thus driving away the deer upon which the lions feed. For another, some Hindu untouchables have no scruples about eating meat and regularly chase the lions away from kills to appropriate the meat for themselves. Also vanishing: India's blackbuck antelope, sloth bear and snow leopard...
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