Word: mainstreamers
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Arguing that they would be better off raised in the Australian mainstream, officials and missionaries had put the mostly mixed-race children in orphanages, boarding schools or white homes. The report concluded that while removal had benefited some, for a majority it had had "profoundly disabling" effects. They were cut off from their mothers' culture, yet - despite the do-gooders' dreams of assimilation - they were seldom fully accepted in white society. The report urged the government to apologize and make reparation to the people affected by removals, whom the media dubbed the "stolen generations...
More than 50 years ago, the historian Richard Hofstadter compared third parties to bees. They inject a new perspective into the political mainstream, and then they die. If Michael Bloomberg runs for President, he'll skip the first step...
...they claimed the former Populist candidate, William Jennings Bryan, for their own, after adopting the party’s most attractive planks. The Republicans, who won that election, ultimately enacted many populist measures. The Populists lost the election, but their vision of America had been incorporated into the mainstream. Even dyed-in-the-wool Democrats or Republicans sometimes stand to gain by voting for a third party. Because of the structure of the Electoral College, voting for Republicans in a blue state or Democrats in a red state is not likely to change the election. Why not draw attention...
Geared towards blacks readers, The Root will create a forum for the political ideas of black America, which Gates said are typically oversimplified into a “monolithic black point of view” by mainstream media...
...Most popular black magazines are pretty solidly capitalist,” said anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, faulting the mainstream black media’s tendency to exalt the “virtues of being super rich and the glory of being covered in bling-bling...