Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saudi government has stripped bin Laden of his citizenship, Britain has forbidden him to enter the country, the U.S. has made serious allegations against him, but so far no one has charged him with any crime. In his conversations with TIME, he gave a warning to those who would continue to pursue him. "People are supposed to be innocent until proved guilty," he said. "Well, not the Afghan fighters. They are the 'terrorists of the world.' But pushing them against the wall will do nothing, except increase the terrorism...
Kilson places the burden of his "reciprocity imperative" on "White Southerners in particular and White Americans in general." He groups together everyone from the most offensive slave-owners to Jim Crow racists to their descendants to anyone of European ancestry living in the South or holding U.S. citizenship. This group identification is stereotyping, to put it euphemistically...
...from the petrification which would result from the elimination of immigration. The principles of openness and freedom which guided our founding fathers must be maintained if this experiment in multicultural democracy is to be preserved in a vigorous manner. Furthermore, Simpson's legislation would also create a second-class citizenship status in America by denying legal immigrants who have become naturalized U.S. citizens public assistance benefits until they have worked in this country for at least 10 years...
However, the U.S. flag does represent a capacity for moral purging and progress. For example, the civil rights movement broadened our nation's stunted conception of citizenship, thus reducing the extent to which the stars and stripes symbolizes white supremacy. Claiming that the Confederate flag also exemplifies a tradition of inclusion and exemplary change is foolish. The Confederacy was founded on principles of black subjugation, and the Southern whites who restored its flag to prominence during the '50s used this flag to demonstrate their desire to continue the domination of black citizens. When has the white South made formal moral...
...anyone who knows me could tell you, I'm a bit fanatical about citizenship duties. I vote (absentee, no less) in every election I can: city council, school board, school bonds, sewer boards; it doesn't matter...