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...advancements in opening educational and economic opportunities to blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call that progress...
...discussion has come up largely in the form of public commentary, and as introduced by Triantafillou," Winters says. "You have to put the proposal for a change in that context...
Like global warming, El Nino--or rather, the climate cycle that produces El Nino--does not generate weather per se: rather it alters the context in which weather takes place. The distinction here is a critical one. "Climate," as social scientist Michael Glantz, formerly of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, likes to say, "is what you expect. Weather is what...
...this vision of a neatly-arranged academic eden is not so appealing in context of the costs entailed. Creating the Barker Center meant giving up some of the history and character of the building for a more generic space...
...going to stand in front of a class and tell them they have to make responsible, smart, healthful decisions [in that context]?" she asks. "I told my students, 'I need to apologize to you. One of my peers may have made some errors in judgment.' It was a tough week to talk about right and wrong...