Word: byrds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heard the "white n----/ black n-----" idea a hundred times over the years. It was not convincing when I was a kid, in the days before the Brown decision. Coming, the other day on Fox Television, from Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the only ex-Klansman who plays the fiddle and reads Plutarch both, it seemed a period piece brought down from the attic, to the surprise and confusion of those gathered in the parlor - an item of yesteryear's genteel insincerity with the mildew of viciousness still...
...suppose that Senator Byrd's use of the "white n-----/ black n------" formula might be excused as an indiscretion of senility. (On the other hand, I'd like to hear the commentary if, say, the current United States attorney general had delivered himself of this charming conceit during his confirmation hearings. Borked? He would have been lynched...
...Jesse Jackson, Jr. stood on the aisle to meet the President as he went by as if they hadn't stood in the very same chamber a month before to yell at former Vice President Al Gore '69 for not inventing rules so they could protest his loss. Robert Byrd looked like he was having a stroke, though, strangely, he didn't seem upset about it. Hillary, who gained more camera time than Laura Bush, couldn't decide what to do with her face and seemed to settle on a combination smile/frown/sneeze...
...become a ubiquitous phenomenon in the United States. The murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay University of Wyoming student, was one of the most prominent incidents of such violence, and one that will be remembered by this generation for its brutality and senselessness. The dragging death of James Byrd basically scared the hell out of most of America. Recent FBI statistics show that 7,876 bias-motivated incidents occurred in 1999. That boils down to almost one incident per hour...
...Thompson, operating out of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, found that 82 percent of Kilimanjaro's icecap melted between 1912 and 2000. He also found that the rate of disintegration may be speeding up; Thompson's measurements show one spot on the mountain's icecap lost roughly a yard of thickness since last February...