Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff fails to recognize that not all who question current forms of affirmative action, as the Court does in Richmond, are racist and are intent on "rolling back" civil rights. The staff's position implies that supporters of the decision are somehow against improving race relations and are insensitive to minority concerns. Such implications are both misleading and counterproductive to the purposes of conferences like Visions...
...familiar face in this year's race--Jonathan Myers--surprised the Cambridge political establishment in 1987 when he came within a few hundred votes of unseating long-time incumbent Saundra Graham...
...open letter to the College, Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, assistant dean for minority affairs and race relations, addressed the problem of the grafitti as well as accusing the Dining Hall Services of insensitivity for sponsoring a '50s night, because it portrayed the era as a "carefree" time, when she said discrimination existed during that period...
...simple self-defense, law enforcers are also turning to heavier and more sophisticated artillery, ratcheting up the arms race another notch. "The police are definitely outgunned in this country," asserts Dewey Stokes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. A cop armed with the six- shot .38-cal. service revolver that has been standard for decades has little chance in a shootout with a criminal wielding, say, a converted Colt ; AR-15 capable of firing 900 rounds a minute; if not hit in the first fusillade, the policeman is likely to be shot while reloading. Out of that fear...
...killer sprays a schoolyard with gunfire, police wage an arms race with trigger-happy criminals, and frightened citizens flock to buy firearms...