Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then someone had an idea: "Why don't we provoke a racial incident? When we are criticized, we can scream racial double standard and make martyrs of ourselves...
...this what really happened behind the doors of The Dartmouth Review? Who can say? But something inspired those journalistic commandos to demonstrate, once again, that racial insensitivity is alive and well in Hanover...
With the publication of the Review's attack on Cole came a heated debate. Blacks and others in the Dartmouth community charged that the attack was racially motivated, while The Review insisted that they were victims of a racial double standard--that any criticism of blacks, however warranted and fair, is construed as a racial attack...
This phrase has not lost its power to jar the senses about social injustice. The words themselves endure, and breathe fire into those who work to tear down existing social, economic, and racial barriers, whatever stands in the way of equality...
...Kerner Commission portended. An overall increase in equal opportunity in education and jobs, affirmative action, workfare programs, and self-help and economic advancement on the part of minority groups have gone a long way towards correcting the ills of a society not so long ago littered with racial quotas and shockingly unjust segregation laws...