Word: color
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Perhaps I wasn't the only one amused and embarrassed by two conflicting headlines, on different pages, in your April 12 issue. On page two is Baratunde R. Thurston's signed opinion piece entitled "The Name Game: People of Color Should Sympathize With Native Americans," a critique of Washington's continued use of the the name "Redskins" for its football franchise...
...second justification offered is that the terms and mascots really are inoffensive. This is one of the most disturbing aspects of the ongoing debate because it merely serves to continue the condescension and disrespect endured by all people of color. This paternalistic attitude has at its roots the idea that "You people don't know what you're talking about," and the further insult, "You do not even know your own emotions...
However, what I find most disturbing about the continued use of these names and mascots is that my fellow people of color defend them as heartily as white people. One would think that having lived through (and still living in) an environment in which every name but our own was hurled at us and used to denigrate us, we would empathize with Native Americans in a similar circumstance. But, instead we offer the same weak arguments used by Cooke...
...there's more than just smell and square lines to the politically ambitious Luzhkov, who makes no secret of desire to supplant Boris Yeltsin. The mayor was involved in every step of the design process, even rejecting Novaya Zarya's initial pick for the cologne box's color. His final choice? Red ? to represent the Kremlin walls...
Twenty-somethings have a hard time buying the stories our parents tell us about the advent of television in the 1950s and '60s. I mean, who can imagine a world in which a family who owned a color set was the envy of the block...