Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In March 1987, two days after Wesley Scott graduated from the police academy and joined the force in suburban Cicero, he discovered a photo of the Ku Klux Klan pasted to his locker. "Who's going to kill Wesley?" one of the robed Klansmen in the picture asked. Another replied...
It has not been easy. "There is not a day that I haven't gone through some kind of hell," says Scott. "Practically every day, someone calls me a nigger." He sits in his modest apartment in a suburb called Justice, about four miles southwest of Cicero, ironing his five...
About an hour later, an NRC spokesman said the chairman had already drafted a letter expressing his regrets about the "unfortunate incident," explaining that he did not recognize Agnes.
Together, these three attacked the system wherever they could promote themselves they could promote themselves by calling it unfair. The strategy was simple: find an incident that could be made racially controversial, make an apperarance on the 6:00 news and incite Blacks to the point that white New Yorkers...
It is hard to recall any that has been so passionately denounced. In Canada, a country that was delighting in its first gold medal of the Games, outrage abounded. Canadian Sports Minister Jean Charest announced the draconian penalty of banning Johnson from ever representing Canada on a national team again...