Word: mcnicol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holtz, growing up scrawny along a crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius Grammar School and a fellow altar boy. "He was always the last person picked for teams." When his uncle Lou Tychonievich started a football team at St. Al's, young Lou learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such...
...second study Sharon Gopaul-McNicol, an educational consultant on Long Island, surveyed 144 black and white preschoolers in Trinidad. She found that 74% of blacks chose white dolls. Though the Caribbean island has a black government and many successful blacks in business, says McNicol, they apparently are not enough to overcome the legacy of white supremacy, passed on by 400 years of British rule, and the influence of North American and European television...
...chose a black doll and had them recite, "This is a nice doll . . . We like these dolls the best." When the preference test was repeated, Hopson reported a dramatic reversal: two-thirds of the black children selected a black doll (as did two-thirds of the whites). Inexplicably, McNicol's subjects showed no such change of heart...