Word: racial
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...other words, he hears America singing - and griping, fretting, seething, conniving, hoping, despairing. He can deliver a pitch-perfect expression of the racial anger of many American blacks - as he did in his much discussed speech on race relations earlier this year - and, just as smoothly, unpack the racial irritations gnawing at many whites. To what extent does he share any of those emotions? The doctor never exactly says...
...most senior Asian officer, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, responsible for security for the 2012 Olympics, is in mediation with the Met over what he characterizes as racial discrimination; if these talks fail, he has threatened to take his employers to a tribunal. In a 2007 autobiography, Not One of Us, Ali Dizaei, a high-flying Iranian-born policeman who was the subject of a ? $6 million corruption investigation by the Met and was eventually exonerated and reinstated, depicts a force that still falls far short of its own pledge to end the "institutional racism" uncovered by an inquiry into...
...Meanwhile, if Hillary Clinton's feelings are still bruised, her husband's are positively raw. The former President is particularly resentful of suggestions-which he believes were fueled by the Obama camp-that he attempted to play upon racial fears during the primaries. Not helping is the fact that Obama has yet to follow up on the tentative dinner plans he and Bill Clinton made at the end of the primary season. "It's personal with him, in terms of his own legacy," says a friend of Bill Clinton's. "And the race stuff really left a bad taste...
...corruption scandals, an inability to tackle rising crime and unemployment, and the unseemly spectacle of some its core members and backers becoming billionaires while much of the country remains mired in poverty. At the weekend, former ANC stalwart the Reverend Allan Boesak even accused his party of resurrecting "racial divisions and ethnic categorization" through its pro-black affirmative action programs...
...Even though the two men had close ties, the press gave little scrutiny to the radical preacher for a year after Obama's campaign began. When attention finally came, Obama gave a speech that tried to shift the focus from their relationship to the rest of the country's racial wounds. He was rewarded with rapturous coverage. The next day, the New York Times ran a "news analysis" calling the speech "hopeful, patriotic [and] quintessentially American" and comparing him to John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. It took a few more weeks for Obama to realize that...