Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were four times as likely to get the death penalty as killers of nonwhites. That wasn't enough to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court, which found in a 5-to-4 vote that the statistical disparity didn't prove that McClesky had been sentenced to death because of skin color. McClesky's charge was supported by a 1990 report by the General Accounting Office, which found that blacks who kill whites are sentenced to death at a far higher rate than whites who kill blacks...
Scott and Beverly Williams lived all over the world during Scott's 20 years in the Air Force, but no matter where they were, one rule applied. "We raised our children to be color-blind," says Scott. But when the fighter pilot retired in 1991 and settled in the sleepy town of Hernando, Miss. (pop. 3,500), half an hour south of Memphis, Tenn., the family rule ran up against local tradition...
...white, one black. It has co-class presidents: one white, one black. The offices of vice president and secretary-treasurer alternate each year between blacks and whites. And when students vote on yearbook honors--cutest, most likely to succeed--winners are again divided by race. So much for color blindness...
...gender-based misconceptions. There's a reason, for example, that the company isn't called Pink Moon. "We tested names with boys," says Deyo. "And when we showed them Purple Moon, it was just, like--bam!--'That would be for girls. Because purple [not pink] is girls' favorite color...
...independent Ivory Phillips, a black woman.) The other wonder of this election is that though Jackson has a black majority, race has not been a dominant factor. Reeves, a white woman, handily defeated black civil rights activist James Meredith in the G.O.P. primary. Jackson voters seemed less concerned about color than about rising crime and other problems...