Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets, they're yelling and screaming about civil liberties and stopping militarism but in the Congress, they're really worried about filthy lucre. And the logistics. As decision time nears Congressmen begin to realize Carter's plan is a vote gathering blind. As Ted Kennedy's been saying, one Congressional aide whispers in my ear, why do it if it would only take us an extra 13 days to muster the first 100,000 men needed to fight in North Yemen. "The additional step of peacetime registration," argues a "Dear Colleague" sent out by the small-but growing ranks...
Lumping together people who are alike is one level of racism, but there is a stronger, more pervasive element that all students should recognize. The University uses the ploy of setting priorities to justify "color-blindness"--a theory which works only if the society as a whole is color-blind. The University's decision to cut funding gradually for minority recruitment and its apathy in previous years in the search for tenured professors for the Afro-American Studies Department are a few indicators of how the color-blindness works...
...meeting between the Third World groups and The Crimson were positive, and I believe the next step should be to shift the emphasis of attack to the stronger elements of racism. For long after the classes have graduated, the University will be here. Will it still be "color-blind...
...learned very early in life that white people as a group are not the enemy, and old lessons die hard. While my trust of white people has been betrayed many times to manipulate my behavior, to blind me to the harsh realities of living Black in this society, and to rob me of a heritage it will take years to reclaim, there is also enough proof in my experience to keep me from writing off the lesson as a total...
Boudreaux is blind; his hands are gnarled and almost dysfunctional; his face is slightly disfigured. He learned he had HD when he was 19 years old. Since that day in 1934, he has lived and worked at Carville...