Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reverend Al Sharpton urged students to protest racial profiling in a speech last night at Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Racial profiling is the term used to describe law enforcement officials' use of race or ethnicity as a factor in identifying individuals they believe may be potential criminals...
Externalists, who tend toward the political left, say that America's racial problems are to be addressed through outside interventions (affirmative action, busing and other government programs to repair the damage of the past and enforce racial justice). Internalists, who are apt to be conservative, stress solutions that require efforts from the inside: education, hard work, self-motivation, morale, bourgeois values, deferred gratification, the old immigrant virtues (turn off the TV, shut down the gangsta...
Horowitz is as much despised among Externalists as Chambers was at Georgetown dinner parties during the Alger Hiss case years ago. Among racial intellectuals, Horowitz is "Not Our Class, Dear." Hating Whitey--with its inflammatory title--deserves a reading. Horowitz is angry and polemical, but he is also a clear and ruthless thinker. What he says has an indignant sanity about it. For cautionary perspective in an argument like this, it pays to remember that Hiss was guilty and Chambers was right...
Those are just two examples of why it's so difficult for all of us, black and white, to discuss racial issues productively: our words keep throwing us back to the past. That's what's happening in Decatur, where school officials' stubbornness and loaded language from both sides have escalated a local dispute over school safety into a racial cause celebre...