Word: denialism
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West posed the question, “Can America grow up?” Can America grow out of its childlike innocence and cease the constant denial of the reality of death that African-Americans already have embedded in their conciousness? African-Americans have been so fascinated and acquainted with death in all of its forms, “physical, social, spiritual and civic,” and West’s lecture, which was originally supposed to feature his new hip-hop album Sketches of My Culture, used excerpts from the album in an attempt to answer those questions...
...they have stopped returning phone calls from longtime friends who have lost their footing. The conversation is getting too raw between those who believe the world has changed forever and those who may agree but still want to move on. You're wallowing in misery. No, you're in denial. But I can't sleep. I don't want to talk about it anymore. A Chicago psychotherapist goes to church in search of calm and respite. "I had to listen to 100 different versions of how horrendous an event this was," he says. "I didn't want to hear...
...Miller, science writer William Broad and investigations editor Stephen Engelberg--were prebooked on the TV publicity circuit. Over the past few weeks, they have been everywhere, retailing their horror stories of Soviet germ weapons programs, Iraqi anthrax stockpiles, Japanese nerve-gas attacks and an American biowarfare defense program in denial and disarray...
...discussing the premature passing of a dear friend from college. But the classmate she is lionizing spent his final moments steering a Boeing 757 into the north tower of the World Trade Center, helping kill some 6,000 people. And leaving his friends and family struggling to get beyond denial: "I could not imagine what could change a person like Mohammed like that," says Ismail. "It is inconceivable. Someone could change after living abroad, but to kill people, out of the question...
...Indeed, his father, also Mohammed El Amir, is so deep in denial that he insists that the September 11 attack was carried out by Israel's Mossad spy agency. He even told TIME that he had actually spoken to his son after the atrocity...