Word: disrespectfulness
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YOUR COVER WITH ITS PHOTOMONTAGE of Senator Bob Dole's head on top of General Powell's uniformed body was the most tasteless thing I have ever seen. I was greatly offended by TIME's disrespect to two of the most significant men in this country today. DOROTHY GENTRY DeSoto, Texas Via E-mail...
...odds. Yet knowing that, many would also know that individual transformation has a power that cannot, should not, be denied. Dr. Darryl L. Fortson, a family practitioner from Gary, Indiana, looked over the crowd with admiration. "The task is unifying black men and atoning for the violence and the disrespect we have shown each other,'' he said. "And the disrespect we have shown our women. If we keep focused on that, then something very good and great will come of this...
...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...
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...