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...with crime. Winning elections by being tough on Negroes—or “crime”—became such good politics that even Bill Clinton, friend of colored folks, made it Democratic strategy in his 1992 victory. This new resolution to the “problem?? of poor blacks has been effective yet because it makes poor blacks invisible and couches the debate in terms that are not explicitly racial. Bill Clinton or George W. Bush would never be against black people, nor suggest that they themselves should serve time for their own past...
...tonic I offer here does not pretend to solve every problem, or even identify every problem??and maybe more questions are raised than answered—but hopefully it clears some congestion, and keeps the patient on life support until all of us are really ready to operate...
...condemned by the Harvard community emerges once again. However, focusing solely on the Clubs overlooks and oversimplifies the issue. The sad reality is that Final Clubs are only representative of a general attitude that exists at Harvard and throughout America. It is this attitude that is the real problem??not the Clubs themselves...
...editorial “Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Problem?? (Nov. 4) the Crimson Staff outlined a procedural remedy they believe would “ensure a safer, more welcoming learning environment.” More specifically, they suggest the creation of a “formal complaint mechanism” separate from academic departments. Such an entity, they point out, ought to safeguard students from religiously motivated improprieties. A wonderful idea, to be sure, but somewhat misplaced in the temporal order of things, namely because at Columbia such an entity already exists. We call...
Racial profiling by Massachusetts police could be a huge problem??but until the state completes a comprehensive study of the race of Bay Staters pulled over in traffic stops, nobody can really be sure. Cue Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly. Thanks to his recent decision to force 128 towns to collect race data for traffic stops, Massachusetts might finally find out just how disproportionately minority citizens are pulled over...