Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kidding aside, mistaken identity has its perks...
Others deny the need for African Americans to repudiate openly other African Americans who express antiwhite or anti-Semitic sentiments. They maintain that public repudiations of this sort undermine African-American unity, sap the group's morale and consequently weaken it before a hostile society. They are mistaken. At the moment, an excess of conformity is far more dangerous than an excess of dissension to the well-being of the African-American community. A paucity of searching, highly public scrutiny of African-American leadership has had a disastrous effect on the tone of African-American political culture, rendering it vulnerable...
...what did Carde's perspective really show? He expected the people of Ovett to be narrow-minded, raving bigots; he probably thought he would be greeted by men in white hoods. When he discovered that his stereotype was mistaken, he turned to condescension, expressing pity for an ignorant community that was fighting to defend its "misguided" moral beliefs...
Both Camille Paglia and your Opinion editors seem to be laboring under the mistaken impression that her words are worth the time required to skim them...
Harvard students are sadly mistaken if they think the literature faculty currently in their thirties and forties are the best America has to offer. Not one was chosen strictly for scholarly accomplishment. Not one came to Harvard through honest means. They are without exception products of the cliquish conference circuit, a crassly commercial phenomenon that arose in the Seventies, as a result of the recession. Their work, under its hip varnish, is shoddy and shallow...