Word: colorism
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...traditional tribal leader but chose instead to become an outlaw in his own land, a man who fought an iniquitous system, not one who abided by it. During the 27 years he was imprisoned by a repressive white minority government, he kept a vision of a nonracist, color-blind society in which white and black lived together in harmony. During his imprisonment, it was he who first stretched out the hand of peace to the government that deprived him of freedom. In the more than three years since his release, he has remained true to that vision, preaching reconciliation where...
...models. Their music is usually guitar-driven, with experimental touches. While pop songs are often about love, alternative lyrics are usually about tougher feelings: despair, lust, confusion. Alternative rock is a reaction, especially among the twentysomething generation, to all the years of being subjected to Madonna's changing hair color and MTV close-ups of George Michael's butt...
...members of the band, as well as most of the people in the alternative rock scene, though female musicians have grown in prominence. In the liner notes to the Nirvana compilation Incesticide, lead singer Cobain wrote, "If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the f--- alone!" And Scott Weiland, the flame-haired singer for Stone Temple Pilots -- grungelike newcomers who have an antirape song called Sex Type Thing -- recalls feeling disturbed at a recent concert when he looked out into a crowd...
...humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing with his soaring, exhilarating swing music; it was Benny who broke the color line in music by integrating his band with the likes of Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson (''I'm selling music, not prejudice,'' he said); it was Benny who brought jazz to Carnegie Hall, confirming its status as an art form. Long before he died of an apparent heart attack...
Almost immediately, reports of bogus parts soared. They came in because mechanics noticed an odd color, or that metal edges were rough, or that boxes were improperly labeled. When Federal Express mechanics ran across starters they thought were fakes, their quality-control department and our agents tore the $10,000 piece apart and found reworked scrap and car parts...