Word: jeffersonism
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...people are trying to find blame for problems, with race as a scapegoat," said another student from New Orleans, Jamila E. Jefferson...
...About three or four years ago, I was visiting Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. The school is largely black, a few Hispanic and a few white kids. I sat in on a group of blacks trying to come to grips with the name of the school, Thomas Jefferson. There were some who thought Jefferson was probably one of the greatest Americans; they ought to be very proud to be part of a school that bears his name. Others said, Thomas Jefferson kept slaves. How can you have any pride in yourself as a young black American while being part...
Gienapp says he may have done it, then, because William Harrison was sort of wimpy-sounding. All the presidents before him (except maybe Van Buren) had been famous for something--like starting the United States (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe), starting the first political machine (Van Buren's Albany Regency) or being an Adams (Adams, Adams...
...just Harkin who's being silly. In the anti-Washington, anti-aristocracy populism that defines presidential politics today, none of the candidates uses a middle name. Or an initial. In fact, they've even taken to truncating individual names. Have you ever heard of William Jefferson Clinton? (Or even William Clinton?) How about Joseph Robert Kerrey? Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.? Perhaps, Lawrence Douglas Wilder...
Last week heated Duke-Edwards arguments reverberated throughout the state, from radio talk shows to restaurants, bars and business offices. A record 64,000 people turned out at the last minute to register to vote in the Nov. 16 runoff election. Audrey Triche, a computer operator in Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans, plans to vote for Duke. "We want a change," she says. "We need it, but where do we go for it? Everybody agrees with what he's saying. Why should you come to work when you can pick up a welfare check? That's why I'm going...