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...saying that African-Americanists and Women's Studies feminists make similar assertions that race and gender can be the determining factors in individual and group experiences. They are justified in that they admit to their assumptions, while Choi claims that multiculturalists "cravenly hide behind the fuzzy epistemological and moralistic cove of diversity." Precisely whom Choi is referring to is unclear. I, as one of the "officials of campus ethnic organizations" which Choi refers to, have never claimed that the need for Ethnic Studies is merely a need for diversity. He cannot be referring to "the exact proposal--put forth this...
...January 1990 crash of an Avianca jet near Kennedy Airport was the sort of local disaster that gets TV news departments pumped up -- and often brings in Emmys. But the first station to arrive at the crash site in Cove Neck, L.I., was not one of the big boys from New York City. It was a crew from News 12, a 24-hour cable channel seen only on suburban Long Island. One of the channel's satellite trucks happened to be half a mile away when word of the crash came over the police scanner. The crew raced...
...case called Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was up to complaining workers to prove a lack of "business necessity" for such practices. Statistics were no longer enough; lawyers in effect had to read employers' minds to demonstrate that they had consciously planned to favor whites...
...path comes to an end in Perkins Cove, a haven of pretentious botiques and overpriced art galleries--all thankfully boarded up in March. (As everyone knows, the real money doesn't arrive until June...
...years later, the installation and preservation of quotas are apparently top priorities for prominent civil rights leaders like Benjamin Hookes, executive director of the NAACP. When Wards Cove was handed down, Hookes threatened "civil disobedience, on a scale that has never been seen in this country" if it and other decisions were not reversed. "Racism," he declared, "is the most important problem facing Black America...