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...Zaidi ’08, both UC insiders campaigning to broaden the council’s vision and impact. Anene, who is running with Kyle A. De Beausset ’08-’09, has been the only candidate to consistently emphasize racial and gender diversity as a major concern. The Black Men’s Forum endorsed Anene, citing his involvement in the creation of the Women’s Center and the “Vote or Die” campaign, which seeks to increase minority representation on the UC.De Beausset has criticized the other candidates...
...revved up to restrain his grammar. The Louisville, Ky., attorney, who has long dreamed of arguing before the highest court in the land and who in recent months had a sign in his office that said "Washington D.C. or Bust," has been on a mission to overturn the racial guidelines Kentucky's Jefferson County adopted to keep its public schools integrated. The student-assignment policy, which the local school board voted to keep even after a judge lifted a desegregation order in 2000, tries to maintain black student enrollment at each school between 15% and 50%. After 30 years...
...heart of the Jefferson County case - and a similar one involving the Seattle school district that was also argued before the Court on Monday - is whether or not a district can actively try to balance the racial composition at its schools. Fifty-two years after Brown v. Board of Education decreed an end to separate but equal schools, residential segregation persists, and with it a reluctance among many districts to switch to a neighborhood school system. Seattle and Jefferson County both allow parents to apply for their choice of school, and the vast majority of parents in these districts...
Should we also toss on the fire Dick Gregory's autobiography, written for cross-consumption as a harsh accounting of the racial indignities heaped upon a young black as he travels from boy to man? The book's ultimate satirical trick was to flip the slur into a sales tool. Its title: Nigger! "Whenever you hear the word 'nigger,'" Gregory wrote in the introduction, "you'll know they're advertising my book." Call a man a nigger, earn a brother a dollar...
Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock have all traded on demystifying nigger. And in doing so, they have advanced the racial debate further than a thousand roundtable discussions populated with the best Ivy League minds. Pryor and Chevy Chase's Saturday Night Live "word association" sketch was a prime example of comedy's power to explore racial interplay in the workplace, the constant questioning of blacks as to when a comment is harmless and when is it racist. Chase is the white human-resources executive. Pryor, the black job applicant. What begins with Chase: "White," Pryor: "Black," devolves...