Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this issue and provoke counter-measures. The media marionettes and their manipulators most often emphasize the high number of Asian-Americans entering the prestigious colleges, their projected "disproportionate representation" in university classes of the future, and other carefully researched population statistics which would never be publicized for some other ethnic concentrations. Rarely do they mention the fact these students are highly qualified by college admission criteria...
...Hollywood entertainer does nothing to promote race relations Ms. Ross did not speak on the subject of race relations in her craft. No one ever thought that she would do so. This is precisely the point Ms. Ross has appealed to audiences from a wide variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, her appeal, however, is not indicative of her ability to promote race relations. The fact is that Ms. Ross does not have a reputation or past history of addressing race relations. Bringing an entertainer, or anyone for that matter, to Harvard whose only claim to addressing the critical problem...
Thus Afro-Americans' ethnic-bloc voting for Harold Washington in Chicago is not racist. What is racist, however, is the attitude that Black ethnic-bloc voting is illegitimate...
This viewpoint implies that Afro-Americans, as they achieve greater parity of political and social status with whites, are somehow less capable of responding to the norms and rules of American politics inclusive pluralism than Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles, Greeks, and other ethnic groups. It is, alas, precisely this attitude toward Blacks that sparked the pathetic pandemonium in Chicago's Democratic party--a pandemonium skewed toward barring Chicago's Blacks from parity of political status with whites, and as such warrants the label "racist". When ethnic-bloc voting seeks to exclude groups from political and social parity it is then...
...Black ethnic-bloc voting in Chicago that ensured Harold Washington's victory has opened up that city's governance to a sizeable segment of the population heretofore excluded from executive leverage. As such this ethnic-bloc voting was progressive, not racist or regressive, widening the range of pluralistic participatory values Some one-fifth of whites in Chicago had enough decency and were mature enough regarding the pluralistic norms that define American democracy to assist Washington's electoral victory. As Blacks consolidate their status of political parity with whites in Chicago, they can be expected to diversify their bloc-voting...