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...College this year, the continuing conundrum of race relations was squeezed into the cookie-cutter of a swelling bureaucracy--and it didn't quite fit the mold...
...football coach, Restic sees himself as the father to his players, using football to mold his kids into strong individuals. Football, Restic says, instills teamwork, loyalty, dedication, self-discipline, sacrifice, unselfishness, determination and hard work...
Austin W. So has a lot to learn. Just because he is ready to meld into some mold that others created for him does not mean that everyone has to do so. Since the SATs are culturally biased and he insists that "African American and Latino students [should] know what those things are [dividends, shareholders, checkmate, and chess]," he should also support the idea of integrating their cultural ideas in the test, and insist that everyone else learn them, too. Wouldn't it be nice if we were all familiar with the insignificant aspects of every culture that only...
...Marquez that it's amazing to me. I could've written a follow-up to Mambo Kings could've done a follow-up to my first novel. I'm just trying to change things a little bit. Not to be [retentions, or anything, I just want to break the mold...
...such as the media and publishing which have managed to present only one side of issues like the Los Angeles riots or the debate of Afocentrism. More importantly, Reed questions the manner in which Black conservatives contribute to such practices by constricting their own views to fit the popular mold. "One of the jobs of the media," writes Reed, "was to protect white America, its customers, from their devils...Though 12 percent of those arrested for looting--including Santa Monica yuppies--during the Great Los Angeles Uprising of 1992 were white, the pictures of whites were associated with cleaning...