Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, if blacks react to whites' reaction to Farrakhan, whites react to blacks' reaction to Farrakahn. It is not unusual to hear whites saying, in effect, "Now that it's clear they hate us, it's O.K. for us to hate them." Glenn Loury, a conservative black thinker and Boston University professor, says, "Farrakhan makes it more respectable for white racism to flourish." That is a cop-out both blacks and whites must work to resist. "The threat to American democracy is not black racism," Loury says. "It's white racism...
...whites not to put too much stock in what he says." Loury says Farrakhan is "the leader of a black fascist sect. His people are disciplined, orderly, militant, reminiscent of the Brownshirts. But they are not Hitler Youth taking over society. He may be a hysterical preacher of hate, but he is not about to take control of anything. He is not about to march into your neighborhood...
...person who has no doubt that the CDC made the right choice is 10-year-old Ryan. Although plucky enough to play Little League baseball with a pinch runner, he has his down moments. "I hate this polio," he says. "Even if it was for just one day, I wish I could run." That may never happen, but if all goes as expected, fewer children will find themselves in Ryan's shoes...
Reflecting the ambivalent feelings of many other Americans regarding the march--and in particular the concern over Farrakhan's record of hate-tinged rhetoric against whites and Jews--President Clinton told a Texas audience that "1 million men are right to be standing up for personal responsibility, but 1 million men do not make right one man's message of malice and division." Clinton condemned both white and black racism and urged the races to come together. To that end, a bipartisan, bi-racial group of congressional representatives asked the President to set up a national commission on race relations...
...first ones fired, especially when they own their own businesses or become managers in other businesses. Black people aren't kept out of universities because of their race. In fact, universities are clamoring for minority groups because of their race. The Ku Klux Klan and other race hate groups no longer hold a prominent place in society, if they ever did. No, black people are no longer oppressed, but they sure think they are when they see racism in their lives every day, in the form of police brutality and a legal system that has the tenacious tendency...