Word: personation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of fun watching the people with all their nametags and wondering, `Does this person look like a president, superintendent, principal or someone studying creative writing,'" says Arthur E. Levine, faculty chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM), the most prestigious of the Ed School's summer programs...
...create multicultural education without a change in attitudes, it's a team effort," Montero-Seiburth concludes. "But there is no universal definition. Each person will have to have their own definition of multicultural education...
Jenny and Eric echoed her thoughts. "It shouldn't make any difference whether a person is white or Black for you to be polite to them!" Eric said...
...think whites feel threatened. It takes close contact and a lot of communication to get across the message that you have nothing to fear from the next person. We have had to prove to whites that we are not going to have power and leave them out. The burden is on us to make the effort to include them. That approach has done more for race relations in this town than anything else. I very much do not want to be guilty of some of the things they were guilty of. I have more close white friends today than...
...sure I've said my share of words that perhaps I shouldn't have said, you know, in common, everyday language. But as far as being able to say I can't work an area because this person's a certain color or that person's a certain color, I have not been that way. There's hostility sometimes, say, when you're making an arrest, one of the friends will say, 'Get your cracker ass outta here!' And I might respond with a four-letter word to them on the side. No 'Nigger, this' stuff or nothin' like that...