Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven Biko's testimony that eloquently discusses the meaning of Black consciousness. Now, if I were Stevie Wonder, I'd feel pretty silly comparing my two-line cliche that sold a bunch of records to monumental statements made by one of the best known martyrs to the cause of racial equality...
Chicago, April 4 -- On the 21st anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Richard M. Daley was elected mayor after a campaign that sundered the city along racial lines...
Bulletins from the battlegrounds where race and politics collide more often resemble the one from Chicago than the one coming from Virginia. As the racially divided voting in the Windy City demonstrated, American elections all too often remain a matter of black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation, seems an unlikely setting for a brand of biracial coalition that could break the depressing pattern of color-bound voting. Yet if Doug Wilder wins the governorship, the old bugaboo of racial politics will have been dealt a severe blow...
...Harvard good, Duke bad. Is that fair? Let's suppose that I, having only been at Harvard a few days, walked into a common room of one of these university's grand houses and overheard some male students referring to a woman as a girl, or making racial slurs, or even claiming that another region of the country has no culture. (I think we can all agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested...
Then I remembered why I went to Harvard. I do not deny that racism and homophobia exist on this campus. But there is a difference. Here, intolerance is intolerable. A racial slur in a house common room at Harvard would draw instant condemnation. At Duke, I saw racist, sexist and homophobic sentiments accepted--and even encouraged--in fraternities...