Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure if I did enough, or if I should have done anything other than my job, to change this perception. I can look around and see that there are not many more Blacks on the paper than when I began in December 1985. Although I am not the type to carry the torch, and lead Blacks to the Promised Land of journalism, I am, in some ways, disappointed in myself...
...meeting to discuss what was to be done about the story, I vehemently expressed my anger. Mostly though, I realize much of my anger was frustration and self-doubt. I wondered if others on the paper felt I should have written the story myself since I was complaining. Maybe I wasn't fulfilling my obligation, not playing my my role. This year I played that role, compiling a Black history quiz which ran in in the What Is to be Done? Should that have been my responsibility...
WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has all but decided to resign, friends said yesterday, but he remained torn over details of his leaving and insisted he had "done no serious wrong" despite numerous ethics allegations...
...there were no black people here in this country, it would have been Balkanized. The immigrants would have torn each other's throats out, as they have done everywhere else. But in becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me -- it's nothing else but color. Wherever they were from, they would stand together. They could all say, "I am not that." So in that sense, becoming an American is based on an attitude: an exclusion...
...breach those things? There is a very, very serious problem of education and leadership. But we don't have the structure for the education we need. Nobody has done it. Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form...