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...nobody is gloating yet in the White House. "It's not too early to be encouraged," says Sosnik. "But it's too early to be complacent." Clinton's numbers are nothing to crow about: a 50% approval rate does not a landslide make. "Of course, right now," says Carville, "you'd rather be us than them...
...more sentimental. It stars Timothy Busfield--Elliot on thirtysomething--as Tom McManus, a happily married father who spends most of his time with three romantically troubled buddies he's known since high school, all of whom own far too many pairs of sweatpants. Tom and his wife Linda (Ashley Crow) long for a time when their friends were not divorced; perhaps they should also long for dialogue with observations more interesting than "You can't turn back the clock...
Furthermore, there was a time in American history where mainstream society referred to African-Americans in nothing but deprecating language. Regardless of this fact, the African-American "race" survived slavery, Reconstruction, two World Wars and Jim Crow, all the while contributing to the material, literary and artistic cultures of this nation. The central point being that exposure to, or use of, deprecating language is not a sufficient condition for material or cultural failures...
...take the direct route, no. Jim Crow laws and legal segregation no longer exist. Black people are no longer the last ones hired and the first ones fired, especially when they own their own businesses or become managers in other businesses. Black people aren't kept out of universities because of their race. In fact, universities are clamoring for minority groups because of their race. The Ku Klux Klan and other race hate groups no longer hold a prominent place in society, if they ever did. No, black people are no longer oppressed, but they sure think they are when...
This anger by the black community has already translated into what might be referred to as the politics of revenge. Though slavery ended 130 years ago, and legal segregation and Jim Crow laws ended 30 years ago, the ill-will created by these institutions still exists, and expands any time a black person is treated unfairly by a white person. The problem is that the people who committed these racist atrocities have long since died and thus there is not outlet for the black community's intense anger...