Word: disrespectfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOOK No Disrespect...
Sister Souljah's voice is loud, vibrant and swaggering in its self-confidence. In her autobiographical first book, No Disrespect, she declares, instructs and makes no excuses for where she has been and who she is. Beginning with her childhood in the projects, she sketches her life, keeping the "essence as true as human memory will permit...
...Disrespect complicates the public perception painted by then-Presidential-nominee Bill Clinton and the media of the woman who suggested that "Blacks take a day off from killing each other and kill whites." Souljah uses the book to reclaim and define her context, one we rarely see up close--what life looks and feels and smells like from inside the concrete buildings of public housing projects, even once those buildings have been physically left behind...
...attributed its occurrence to instances when "you give authority to another person's erroneous concepts and disrespect the truth that you already know...
...example, and that they hate to pay taxes. If there's anything major he doesn't "get," it's that in a hyperdemocracy, "getting it" can be self-defeating. The voters demand slavish obedience, but the more they receive it, the less they respect it. Has this sort of disrespect reached such a level as to be actually auspicious for a politician who leads rather than follows? It is hard to say. Few politicians seem inclined to conduct the experiment...