Word: racial
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...tell you about Pedro Infante? If you're a Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who he is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. If your racial and cultural ethnicity is Other, then it's about time you learned about the most famous of Mexican singers and actors." -Denise Chavéz, from her 2002 novel Loving Pedro Infante...
...defensiveness that emerges during discussions of race is, however, much more alarming to me. More than anything, this blocks people from having straightforward conversations about race. This problem is not unique to one particular racial group. I have witnessed black people getting defensive when issues of race were brought up and not truthfully look at the issues just as I have seen white people...
...discussions about racial oppression, I’ve heard white people talk about how black people self-segregate, or how middle class white youth have it much worse than the freeloading and undeserving black youth in terms of their chances of getting admitted to college...
Similarly, it is extremely useful for a black person to try to understand the problems and struggles that may exist in the lives of white people. While white people should not get defensive about race to the point that they dismiss and overlook the racial inequalities that exist in our society, black people cannot write off the dilemmas that white people face in their lives as well. There are many white people who suffer from the ills of poverty and discrimination, and these issues must be confronted as well...
...economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...