Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe Oppenheim and others should direct their ire towards a government that is killing people through racism and poverty, that tolerates and likely even encourages racist police violence, racial segregation, patriarchy and homophobia instead of against Jamal. JUSTIN P. STEIL '00 February...
Trebon argued that Means is the victim of racial discrimination because the Navajo Nation only has authority over him because he is an American Indian. Trebon pointed out that Means cannot vote or hold public office in the Navajo Nation, asking, "Why should he be subject to Navajo...
...vicious killers simply because he was gay might have been enough to prompt the state legislature in Wyoming to enact hate-crimes legislation. In the wake of the killing, in the wake of the national outcry that followed, it seemed like the obvious fact--that violence motivated by racial, ethnic or sexual bias warrants extra punishment--was on the verge of acceptance...
...Howard immediately realized that using that word was a big mistake. The black guy he was talking to was sure he'd used the N word. Howard tried to explain that niggardly is a legitimate word meaning 'miserly' and has no racial connotation, to no avail. In a flash everybody in city hall thought Howard had called the black worker a you-know-what...
...delighted. Jones returns with the story of a black female truck driver in south Texas who winds up in an effort to harbor border crossers. Mosquito is a carnival of digression and free association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext to the story, but they aren't probed much. Still, in rare moments, Jones' virtuosity grins up at us, leaving hope that this is just a frustrating detour on the road to better storytelling...