Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...board, has joined with Cure Autism Now as part of a campaign to wipe ASDs out. asds are not diseases, and I think I speak for many when I say that we are happy the way we are. Autism is a genetic difference in the same vein as skin color, gender and other such categories. Phil Gluyas, Victoria, Australia...
...equipment like cranes and bulldozers. So far, their efforts have produced, among other things, a massive zoo, five police stations and three golf courses. (Burma's generals are notoriously fond of the sport.) Government housing is provided in bright-hued blocks reminiscent of a down-market Florida retirement community, color-coded by residents' occupation: blue buildings are for the Ministry of Health, green for the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation...
...joined with Cure Autism Now as part of a campaign to wipe out ASDs. Autistic spectrum disorders are not diseases, and I think I speak for many when I say we are happy the way we are. Autism is a genetic difference in the same vein as skin color, gender and other such factors. Phil Gluyas, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA...
...anti-immigrant riots that have raged through Johannesburg's townships since May 11, killing at least 42 and making refugees of 16,000 by May 21, have unearthed a dark truth: xenophobia can be as much about poverty as skin color. The grim tide of killing, raping, burning and hacking that has torn through the northeastern province of Gauteng is centered on shanty towns such as Alexandra and Kya Sand that form a ring of destitution around Africa's commercial capital. While South Africa's overall economy grows at a steady 4% to 5% and Johannesburg's business district accounts...
...verge of becoming the party's first insurgent nominee to knock off an establishment front-runner since 1976, when a Georgia peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter came out of nowhere to capture the nomination. Obama's achievement is historic in more ways than just skin color: soon, he will have overcome a front-runner who was, at least at the start, better organized and better funded and who shared a last name with the party's master strategist and two-term President. Next come daunting tasks; his campaign is about to grow rapidly, doubling or tripling in size...