Word: colorations
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Like China, Zhu lost two decades of his life as Mao pushed an already poor country into famine and industrial ruin in the 1960s and '70s. He is from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong...
...People of color see racial profiling as a systematic problem that feeds on itself," says Rivera. "If police pull over more people of color because they fit a certain profile, then naturally they will tend to arrest more people of color for whatever infractions they uncover." The results of the arrests can then be used unfairly to justify the practice. Critics say this is a circular standard, and that it can be applied against any group of people police wish to target. Moreover, says Rivera, leading critics who have seen the criteria set forth in the profiles report that...
...current federal law on the subject, written in 1968, says that "hate crimes" must be motivated by prejudice based on race, color, religion or nationality and be committed against someone who is engaged in a federally protected...
...People are sick of black," Enright says. "If I show color, they will...
...keeping with the rage for color, Enright reports hot sales in red handbags and other accessories...