Word: okaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government. Much of Richardson’s focus is on the disappearing Western frontier, which provided the ideal of the hardworking individual free from eastern corruption and big government that Middle America lauded. But, Richardson reminds us, everyone had their place. Women receiving a greater public voice was only okay when they were doing feminine things, like improving conditions for their children. Middle class ideology said that if blacks would work hard, they would advance in life and earn respect. But then as now, what the middle class failed to recognize is that without equal rights, these groups could never...
...cannot run from these issues. We have to confront them head on. It’s okay for a white person to bring up issues such as the aforementioned ones, but they should be willing to understand the entire question, and examine why these issues arise in the first place...
...enough of that for himself, citing his charity work, his support of black Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr., even his booking the black singing group Blind Boys of Alabama on his show. (He didn't mention how, last fall, he groused about persuading the "money grubbing" "Jewish management" to okay the booking...
...It’s very offensive to me to listen to the chair of the task force saying that he’s okay with a building that violated the North Allston Strategic Plan,” Allston resident Paul Alford said...
...Okay. That’s done with. On to the good stuff. There’s much more of the good stuff...