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Despite the uncertainties and unsavories of Ritalin, over one million children currently take Ritalin to counteract the manifestations of ADD. In a recent Newsweek article, Dr. Laurence Greenhill of Columbia Medical School called Ritalin "one of the raving successes in psychiatry." Parents everywhere are seeking a mandate from medicine, taking unmanageable children to doctors who tend with very little resistance to diagnose them as ADD and put them on a regular diet of Ritalin, sometimes supplementing the prescription with Prozac...
...race is a nebulous concept, racism remains a concrete reality. Cose, author of A Nation of Strangers and The Rage of a Privileged Class and a commentator for Newsweek, confronts this most sensitive of American subjects with a mix of think-tank analysis, anecdotal journalism and cautious Utopianism. Before he is through, however, his lofty vision of a color-blind society has been modified into a 12-step program for a "race-neutral" nation...
...effect of this new fever is to pull the divide between race and class further apart, and faster. Take a close look at where Ebonics is being debated and examined: Time, Newsweek, the college debate teams and op-ed sections of the papers. Who reads and writes these articles and who participates in these debates? More importantly, how is the dialect explained and portrayed...
...debate over Ebonics has essentially become an Us v. Them debate. Newsweek certainly does not use the Ebonic grammatical structure. Newsweek uses standard English to explain what Ebonics is, and how California is using it--and thereby automatically creates opposition. This opposition is the dreaded binary: male/female, cat/dog, English/Ebonics...
Difference is clearly never equal; we can all agree that separate but equal just does not work. It can't, and in creating two separate schools--those who speak, read and write Ebonics v. those who don't (or, those who read Newsweek and those who don't)--the difference is being established beyond any reasonable boundary...