Word: racial
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Perhaps the greatest social challenge to our nation is to realize the enormous potential of our racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. Creating a climate in which each of us is truly comfortable with difference is not an easy task. It requires training and commitment to treat multiethnicity as the essence of our country. Burt E. Schuman, Executive Director Panel of Americans, Inc. New York City Dipping Snuff and Chewing Tobacco...
...lose ferocity against one another. Homosexual rape has long been commonplace, and stabbings are now epidemic, averaging 19 a month, in contrast to about nine a month in 1984. Assailants wield sharpened combs and toothbrushes, melted-down margarine containers and other makeshift daggers. The usual motive is simple racial hatred among blacks, Hispanics and Anglos...
...school shooting in Red Lake, "The Devil in Red Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were to blame, the reader is tempted to discount...
...same goes for the summer tale of “Immersion,” in which racial prejudices engrained in children are acted out around the town swimming pool. Though the story evades the trap of complete triteness by eventually introducing a mysterious and deadly disease plaguing the community, oft-tread cliches weigh down the story’s first half...
...Weekly Standard exposé came just weeks after Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. admitted that his book on racial segregation, “All Deliberate Speed,” released last April, had copied six paragraphs almost verbatim from another scholar’s essays. Ogletree told The Crimson at the time that he would be disciplined by the University—an assertion that Harvard officials would neither confirm or deny. Ogletree declined to elaborate further...