Word: racial
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...issue was not problematic given the context of Obama’s speech—coming on the heels of comments by his minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, which many deemed inflammatory and anti-American. In light of the Wright controversy, some panelists said they believed Obama simply focused on racial categories he knew personally. The discussion later moved from Obama’s speech to the nature of race in America today. One of the biggest questions on the floor was: how can the United States resolve modern racial inequality? “Some attempts to repair injustices build...
...profound sigh of relief upon reading "Class Dismissed" and learning that some Japanese universities have finally begun to open their doors to foreigners [March 17]. Although superficially Japan has the aura of being international, desperate measures are needed to educate the populace into accepting people from diverse national, racial and ethnic backgrounds. Such openness will be instrumental in pulling Japan away from its old legacy of national seclusion. Mari Oka, Tokyo
...pedestal of the games should be used to cast a vivid spotlight on their locale, as has been done in the past. In Mexico City in 1968, when Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the medal podium, the resulting image awakened the world to American racial injustice. In Sydney, the naming of Aboriginal track star Cathy Freeman as torch bearer and her meteoric rise in media popularity brought to light the horrors of the Australian government’s genocidal actions against its Aboriginal population. Coupling awareness of Chinese atrocities with Olympic media coverage—which...
...artists, that Black Power has not died out but has merely been channeled through the new black musical form; artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, and DMX have replaced Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan as the new prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into...
...Crime has become de-politicized," says Kunzmann, because unlike in the apartheid era where the law served the ends of racial domination, there is now a social consensus over what constitutes a crime. "Police officers [today] are officers of a law we all recognize...