Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such by the pundits ?- if they all hadn?t been home watching the weather...
...word through her colleagues at the Associated African American Harvard Alumni (AAAHA). Over the next few days, Wilson estimates she received 10 to 15 resumes from black Harvard graduates--far more than she expected...
...something sacred than shooting up a school full of kids? How about a church full of kids? Police in Fort Worth on Thursday were scratching their heads for a motive after a man, identified by police as 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook of Fort Worth, dressed in black and spewing anti-Baptist rhetoric, burst into a church service for teenagers Wednesday evening and opened fire, killing seven and then himself. He was "cussing royally," said one survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips of a semiautomatic handgun into hallowed...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, future president of the United States, described it years later as the greatest disappointment of his life. Someone--he never learned who--had black-balled him, vetoing his membership in the Porcellian Club, at the turn of the century the top rung in Harvard's rigid social ladder. Heartbroken, the young Franklin had to settle for the Fly Club and the Crimson presidency instead...
Bill Sims and Karen Wilson meet in 1967 in Ohio, where Bill, who is black, is regularly harassed for consorting with a white girl. The family eventually moves to Queens, N.Y., and thrives as a benevolent, good-humored fortress. But as elder daughter Cicily finds at college, the outside world eventually intrudes. The most hurtful prejudice she encounters is from black classmates--a situation that comes to a head when she spends a semester in Africa that deepens and complicates her identity. And yet that self-fulfilling racist caution, "What about the children?," hardly obtains. Both Cicily and her sister...