Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krayer, wearing a coat and tie, stood next to the Harvard bench during the game. Powerless to help the team. Hungry...
Violent racism is dead. A generation ago, Birmingham's chief of police, Bull Connor, was sending dogs out to attack Blacks. Nowadays, the law--if not all the people--are on the side of Blacks. Powerless, frustrated whites hurling rocks at protesters in Forsyth is not evidence of the return of Connorism. Cummings, Georgia is not symbolic of the racism that exists in American today. Racism's current incarnation is as hidden as it is persistent...
...disturbing that there are people out there who would ask such questions. But what cannot be ignored is that they are powerless in our society, the exceptions to a new set of rules. That such overt, virulent racism today stands out serves as a reminder of the strides America has made in race relations. The racism that hinders the nation's minorities today is of a more genteel nature...
...institution supercedes Harvard as a community. In each, absolute standards for the tenure of faculty members and the maximizing of profits from investments of the endowment assume a much greater importance than community input in the making of policy. These philosophies help keep a student body irresolute and powerless to affect their education and their lives...
...Overseers have evolved into a tangential and powerless organ. Members usually rubber-stamp major decisions and concentrate on informally advising academic departments. Their agenda has become limited and largely inconsequential, their proceedings have become shrouded in secrecy, their members are ordered not to speak to the media, or by extension to the public...