Word: legacyism
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The word segregation conjures up images of the vicious injustice of the South's Jim Crow laws, with its separate, superior facilities and opportunities for whites. Non-violent demonstrators, freedom riders and students who participated in sit-ins in the struggle for desegregation were spat upon, beaten, maimed and sometimes...
Cambridge was not the same city 100 years ago that it is today. There were fewer voices to take offense to Rindge's legacy. But the plaques were misplaced then, and should not remain simply because they have endured for more than a century.
Block said that the legacy of slavery and discrimination against Black Americans has reduced them to this caste-like status, which could account for the 15 point difference in white and Black IQs.
Beyond its role as a media feeding ground, the Simpson case will prove to have less of a legacy than current fervor might indicate, Ogletree said.
Affirmative action has produced another, less conspicuous but perhaps more pernicious, consequence. Leonard Fein, a social critic, described this unintentional legacy of affirmative action in an historical context: "James Baldwin wrote that one of the tragedies of being Black in America is never knowing why you failed. The modern corollary...