Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contradictions between ideals of freedom and the reality of racism frequently collide, the legal realm, it would seem, is a forum uniquely suited for the allegorical discourse of Black religion to express its faith in redemption and deliverance. The traditional reliance of legal discourse on abstractions such as "equal protection" and "due process" only further conceals the gap between American norm and reality...
...same cure be given to poor black youngsters, the public balks. The courts defend the exclusion of Blacks from treatment on the grounds that since the disease itself afflicted whites, the cure could be limited to caucasians on medical and not racial grounds. Such are the limits of the "Equal Protection Clause...
...unkindest cut of all, though, came from Olympic Coach Dave Peterson who said, "[Harvard] and Vermont look pretty equal...
...slavery's most damning legacy is not white racism but the psychological crippling of Blacks who lack the pride necessary to compete. "A central theme in Afro-American political and intellectual history is the demand for respect, the struggle to gain inclusion within the civic community, to become co-equal participants in the national enterprise," Loury wrote in a 1985 New Republic article...
...economic situation fester too long, and eventually there are no good policy choices. That was a favorite saying of the late Arthur Burns when he piloted the Federal Reserve Board through the inflation-ridden 1970s, and it applies with equal force to the dilemmas facing Government policymakers in the wake of the stock market's Crash of '87. A babble of conflicting voices warns of peril in almost any course the economic managers might take to reduce the budget and trade deficits and force the country to live within its means. And those warnings cannot be lightly dismissed. There...