Word: ops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country, almost without knowing where it was going, has wandered down unpaved roads that vanish into swampland. The Farrakhan march--warmhearted, festive, lovely in its way--was a sort of culminating symptom. On respectable op-ed pages, writers have been suggesting that we might as well consider breaking off part of the U.S. to form a separate Republic of African America. The arrangement would confirm a secession that has already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional...
...suppose there are those out there who found Professor Cornel West's apology for his participation in the Million Man March somewhat short of convincing. To me, reading the op-ed piece in the New York Times was out-right painful. Here was a stunning exemplar of that genre of moral acrobatics that I shall call the "bracket...
...frightening fact of note is that Farrakhan commands the respect of a great deal of African-Americans of our generation. In an Op-ed piece in last Saturday's New York Times, Professor West once again defended his participation in the march by telling us. "Young blacks are hungry for vision, analysis and action; (even) radical democrats must go to them and be with them...
This theme of race abandonment and being a traitor is echoed by Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe and columnist Molly Ivins. In a recent column ("Questioning Powell's beliefs," op-ed, Sept. 27) Jackson says that Powell "ate political caviar" while "the people in his sea of black and Hispanic faces were being told that ketchup was a vegetable, their mothers were welfare queens and the quintessential criminal in America was black rapist Willie Horton," and that Powell "is but an instrument for white people to feel smug about solving racism...
...agreement, Israeli troops will begin a withdrawal from Arab towns in the West Bank ten days after the deal is signed. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat will sign the accord in a White House ceremony on Thursday. "Although both sides want the photo op in Washington this week," says Allis, "it is clear that Rabin in particular needs it to maintain the shaky momentum of this process in the face of dwindling support among his people...