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Mayo's main objection to Council member Tom E. Woods' selection--the United Daughters of the Confederacy--was much loftier. Dredging up the whole Confederate flag ordeal, Mayo suggests that these ladies exist to offend the likes of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, rather than to preserve Southern culture. Mayo responds to Woods' description of Moseley-Braun as an "arrogant elite" by suggesting that Peninsula is presumptuous in suggesting that a Black female could actually be an elite. I hope all of those who feel black women are unqualified to be members of the elite are, like Mayo, no longer part...
...appeal to each of you to remember that we are a close community, that we care for each other's health and safety, and that we uphold a standard of living that does not offend others," Shinagel wrote in the letter...
PLAY FOR KEEPS After nearly a year in office, Clinton has been weakened by a desire to please everyone and offend no one. But as he scrounged for votes, he crossed a new psychological threshold. When Congressman Bob Torricelli of New Jersey came out against the pact, Clinton fired a rocket his way, penning an acidic message in the margin of a speech Torricelli gave last year in support of free trade: "This was written by a man who cared." When Torricelli telephoned later to discuss the note, Clinton refused to take the call...
...difference between a Harvard conversation on racism and conversations in the "real world" is that the former is often a careful, non-offensive one, while the latter are filled with brutal honesty. Paradoxically, racists who do not care whom they offend, can talk more openly about hatred between ethnicities than the individual who is attempting to see all sides of the issues. And people who are confronted by racism everyday are not embarrassed talking about something which concerns their most basic relationships with other people...
...price for this privilege is that we will come across opinions which we disagree with. Every now and then, something is bound to offend us. But we can't throw out two hundred years of Constitutional history every time an advertisement makes you a bit squeamish. There is no belief so repulsive, no opinion so damaging to society that freedom of speech should ever be abridged...