Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such affronts may seem insignificant to whites, but they are reshaping the racial agenda for the next decade and beyond. The problems of the urban black underclass -- unemployment, drugs, teenage pregnancy, hopeless schools -- are more urgent than ever. But for the black middle class, there are new preoccupations. Not just job-creation programs, but job promotions. Not just high school diplomas, but college tuition. Not just picket lines, but picket fences. An agenda, in short, for a full partnership in the American Dream...
...that all of the nation should feel ashamed and enraged by the sorry condition of the underclass. Its misery in the midst of an affluent society is a disgrace. While the growth and strength of the black middle class prove that the U.S. has gone far to untangle its racial conundrum, racism remains at the top of a long list of unsolved national problems. The success of middle-class blacks is mainly the product of their own hard work and tenacity. But it would not have occurred without the national consensus, embodied in civil rights legislation, to dismantle segregation...
...improve education while chopping the deficit. Faced with daunting fiscal constraints, Bush finds choice an ideal program, since it stresses competition without involving major federal funding. So far, however, the President has neither provided strategy for supporting the plan nor suggested what might be done to ease racial and economic inequities...
Minority leaders' charges are simply untrue, and their lawsuit threatens to undermine a plan which has been proven across the country to enhance parental choice and educational opportunity. These leaders have also unnecesarily divided Boston city politics along racial lines, creating an environment ill-suited for lasting educational progress...
...recommended that the Democratic Socialist movement not get caught up on "zero-sum social issues like apartheid, unions, and racial justice" that, while important to the movement, unfairly stereotyped their goals. She cited new issues that she believed the left should discuss such as family issues, the transitions of the American economy and the concept of full employment...