Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...Decapitated pig head spinning on a metal spike/Weird small monkey crucified." Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice: "Christopher Walken flies in a suit/He's cool, and creepy too." The White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl: "Legos up and they're down/Red and white, it's a strict color scheme...
...deadline in Massachusetts. The students registered hundreds of voters over the weekend. “I think it’s...historic that people may have the opportunity to have an elected official that looks like them whether that means a woman as vice president or a person of color as president,” Executive Director of MassVOTE Avi Green said. “I think that’s inspiring to a lot of people.” Green trained IOP members in proper voter registration etiquette and eligibility before they traveled door-to-door on Saturday. Green...
...trip took me several times across the wide, brown Missouri River, and it occurred to me that these issues of skin color and tribe have haunted these parts at least since Lewis and Clark paddled the liquid highway westward. But as I listened to voters, what became clear was that the Obama campaign is not the simple racial referendum some commentators have pictured. I heard several reasons why voters might be reluctant to support the guy, but race was rarely cited...
Perhaps we have. And if so, when the story is told, the moral might be that white and black begin to fade when the color that matters is green - the green of money we can no longer count...