Word: classism
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Edwards, who enrolled in the program 12 years ago as a kindergarten student, said she initially felt "horror getting into a bus to go to a place far away" and that she then underwent "trials and tribulations of racism, sexism and classism...
...team, the trio leads discussion groups on sensitive topics such as racism, sexism and classism. As individuals, they exist to provide an ear and a shoulder to first-years struggling with personal problems...
...sentences, in an edited op-ed piece, should remind some of us that the basic question at hand is not only learning standard English grammar, but mastering it. I write this letter because I feel people are using the debate about Ebonics as a platform to overphilosophize about "binary classism" and other completely irrelevant phrases, which sound good in a term paper but only serve to obfuscate the real issue: the education and future of America's most disadvantaged youth. --Sozi T. Sozinho...
Moreover, the very media in which this horrendous message is being communicated lends an implicit air of classism to the situation. Harvard students and anyone with an e-mail account has access to this trash. Does Leroy? I would venture to guess not. This shows that a class is being established, rallying around Ebonics, in which inside jokes, allusions and references are made. Only the select and privileged have access to this circle and so the class is clearly pulling away from the likes of Leroy. If you inquired after the fictional Leroy, he would never even know that...
...theme of this year's Annual Action Week is "Roots of Violence." And while the themes of EAA's postering campaign--homosexuality, racism, sexism, and classism--are not the foci for Annual Action week, they are issues that are intertwined and contribute to prejudice and social injustice, EAA leaders said. Other issues addressed during the week will be hate crimes, and domestic, economic and youth violence...