Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief point of information in connection with Melanie Williams review of Spike Lee's School Daze (March 9th): Ms. Williams' observation that Blacks have recently begun to change their eye color to "blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty" unwittingly plays into one of the subtlest games of misinformation that white racism has played on Blacks...
Just as the skin tones of Black people range across the spectrum, so too do the colors of their irises. Two of my cousins, for example, were born with green eyes. No one would ever mistake them for anything but Black, and they are hardly unique specimens...
Obviously, the relative frequency of a given eye color varies in Black and white populations. But there is no justification for thinking that green and blue irises are somehow the exclusive property of whites...
This year, Michigan State finished third in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association behind Lake Superior State (the number-two ranked Western team) and Bowling Green (number four in the West...
...together the type of series we did against Bowling Green last year, we'll do pretty well against Michigan State," Young said...