Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the term African-American does represent an advance in the continual evolution toward a true identity for a people whose ancestors were forcibly brought to this hemisphere by Europeans, forcibly held in slave labor and forcibly mixed in racial composition, it may be imprecise, or equivocal at best...
Genetically, almost all of today's "Black Americans" are a racial mixture of African, Native American Indian and European bloodlines. Regardless of the surface color (phenotypy), we are a unique genetic creation of this hemisphere, and America is our only home. Perhaps the name Afrindeur-American would be more precise. Dr. S. Allen Counter Director, Harvard Foundation
...nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons we learned," says Mary Maples Dunn, president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. "We thought we'd done good things in the 1960s, but we rested on our laurels...
...rule sparked massive protests from college coaches. At the center of the controversy is the alleged racial bias of the rule: 83 percent of the approximately 700 partial qualifiers sitting out under Proposition 48 are Blacks...
Similar conflicts have plagued the many middle-income apartments the Trump family operates with minimum publicity in Brooklyn and Queens. In 1973, when the Federal Government charged racial discrimination, Trump hired the notorious Roy Cohn to defend him, then eventually signed a consent decree. No less vexing was the 1983 controversy at the 1,400-apartment Shore Haven Apartments in Brooklyn, where the Trump organization started charging new tenants $40 to $60 a month for garage fees regardless of whether they had cars. One tenant, Viola Salomone, actually acquired a car and parked it in the unlocked and unattended garage...