Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oddly enough, some people really enjoy spouting off their answers to people. In a desperate scramble for friends or sell esteem, they discourse about their answers to anyone who will listen, no matter how shamelessly the Listener has blown off the class...
...High School tutored inner-city, minority junior high students to prepare them for the Stuyvesant exam. The Board of Education and concerned students did not seek superficial remedies like racial quotas; we focused on the core of the problem, like high dropout rates, apathy to education, and low self-esteem, and we saw dramatic results...
...fight for African-American self-esteem starts in infancy...
Imagine my wife's anguish and alarm when our beautiful brown-skinned three- year-old daughter made that declaration. We thought we were doing everything right to develop her self-esteem and positive racial identity. We overloaded her toy box with black dolls. We carefully monitored the racial content of TV shows and videos, ruling out Song of the South and Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying...
Lincoln wrote the lyrics to the best songs on all three albums. Some, such as I've Got Thunder (and It Rings) are prickly proclamations of self-esteem ("I'm a woman hard to handle, if you need to handle things./ Better run when I start coming. I've got thunder and it rings"). Others, like Story of My Father, evoke a sense of roots that go back through segregation and slavery all the way to Africa. There are also scornful lectures such as the one for rap singers in the title tune on Devil's Got Your Tongue: Lincoln...