Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimated that the case will progress at the speed of one hearing per month...
...suit cites the "failure of the defendants to have adequately monitored Tadesse's situation and progress after having knowledge that she was troubled." Yet the defendants were not the people in her life who would be most able to accomplish this. Realistically, the people who had the best ability and the best opportunities to realize the dangers posed by Sinedu Tadesse's mental state would have been her mental health counselor and Ho. Yet no suit has been brought against the counselor, a professional trained to recognize and treat such problems and therefore directly responsible for negligence. And as ugly...
...suit claims Ho's death "was proximately caused by the failure of the defendants to have adequately monitored Tadesse's situation and progress after having knowledge that she was troubled, and their failure to inform [Ho] of Tadesse's troubles...
...black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person, I do know the slap in the face of being reminded that a black person in this country can never...
...blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call that progress...