Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless, the Harlem rally both highlighted and increased the racial tensions in New York. But the worst was yet to come. Two days later, on Labor Day, a group of volunteer firefighters entered a float in the annual parade through the quiet, isolated Queens neighborhood of Broad Channel. The group had won the award for funniest float nine years in a row, with themes that often mocked minorities including Jews and gays, with titles like "Hasidic Park" (a parody of Jurassic Park) and "Gooks of Hazzard...
Somehow word of those offensive floats failed to make the mainstream. This year, the firefighters decided at the last minute to call their float, a decorated pickup truck, "Black to the Future, Broad Channel, 2098." It was intended, they said, to make the point that nearly all-white Broad Channel will, in the next hundred years, become integrated. To make that "point," such as it is, they wore Afro wigs and blackface, dribbled basketballs and threw pieces of watermelon at the crowd...
...week later, after Giuliani had inveighed against the float and suspended or fired the firefighters involved, the New York Times went back to Broad Channel to assess the community's reaction. "Those guys on the float, I know they play with the colored people," said one Broad Channel resident. "It was all in fun. I wish every kid in the Channel could grow up like that bunch...
...broad emotional base leads to the finestresearch," Anderson says...
...expected to make up more than two-thirds of those voting next week, Williams' lead slips to 28% over Chavous' 25%. Williams will focus the last days of his campaign on black voters. He often notes that saving Washington--and winning self-government back from Congress--has broad racial significance. Under Barry, he says, "the government of Washington took on the character of an African-American-managed enterprise. Quite frankly, I think it is vitally important we show that this can be the best-run operation in the world...