Word: disrespected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exclusion of women reinforces a disrespect and denigration of women that is already prevalent in the Citadel," said Valorie K. Vojdik, who served as head counsel for Faulkner during her two-and-a-half year legal battle to gain entrance to the academy...
...anti-flag-burning amendment is necessary in order to get us to respect the flag. But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire. True, torching something is often a clear sign of disrespect, but the converse does not hold. As they proceed with their weighty deliberations, our Congress members should realize that just because someone does not douse them in kerosene and hold a match to their pants cuffs is no reason to think they are held in respect...
Each of the characters in No Disrespect is featured in a chapter. They are all functional in their roles as exemplars of the problems facing the black community. Souljah's mother's strength and spirit are sapped by a demeaning welfare system. Her roommate, Mona, is revealed to be a lesbian, opening up a veiled political discussion of female homosexuality in the Black community. While each of these character types is familiar, included in the story for political reasons, Souljah reveals just enough of their thoughts and actions to make them human...
...politicized music, there is little room in No Disrespect for human frailty and indecision in her vision of herself. Souljah touches self-consciously on many of the social, political and psychological issues that keep Oprah and Ricky on top in the ratings. She is brutal and exacting in her account of man-sharing; forgiving and indulgent of the friend who collects abortion money from her stable of men to fund a shopping spree; passionate in her love of Nathan, her "strong Black man," but callous in her dismissal of him when imperfection challenges his masculinity. Souljah is overly political, impassioned...
Though we have met each of her characters before, Sister Souljah's No Disrespect offers a lens to the rhythms and realities of young Black urban life, making her characters believable and impossible to dismiss, even when they aren't pretty to look...