Word: m
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration: Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...
General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
...importance of the publication last week of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, a landmark 588-page study by the National Research Council that strives to update reports by the 1968 Kerner commission and Gunnar Myrdal. Edited by black economist Gerald David Jaynes and white sociologist Robin M. Williams Jr., A Common Destiny represents the nation's most definitive report card on race relations in 20 years. And America has flunked...
...governmental steps to achieve it. A Common Destiny views discrepancies like these as "important signs of continuing resistance to full equality of black Americans: principles of equality are endorsed less when social contact is close, of long duration, or frequent." Put colloquially, the prevalent white attitude is "Yeah, I'm for integration, but not in my neighborhood...
...m sure I've said my share of words that perhaps I shouldn't have said, you know, in common, everyday language. But as far as being able to say I can't work an area because this person's a certain color or that person's a certain color, I have not been that way. There's hostility sometimes, say, when you're making an arrest, one of the friends will say, 'Get your cracker ass outta here!' And I might respond with a four-letter word to them on the side. No 'Nigger, this' stuff or nothin' like...