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...travel to France for the reasons that have impelled Americans since 1776: for a sentimental education, a cultural polish, for sexual or artistic or racial freedom, to perfect the language of Moliere, Flaubert and Proust. He went because there was as yet no independent America and because it was painfully clear to the Continental Congress that without the assistance of a European power, there would not be. The colonies had no munitions, no money and no credit but had resolved all the same to battle the mother country. There was something of a difference between declaring independence and achieving...
...full-time journalist, I feel these same pressures. Since I'm more interested in politics than in racial issues, am I fulfilling my sociojournalistic mission? I suppose I could bring a black perspective by talking to more minority sources or by closely examining how Bush Administration policies affect minorities. But isn't this something a white reporter could do too? Similarly, if you're white and discussing racial profiling in a class, isn't it part of your role as a student to think about how you would feel about this issue if you were black? This is a core...
...Supreme Court opinion last week, borrowing language from a lower court, once a few people like me are sitting in a classroom, "discussion is livelier, more spirited and simply more enlightening and interesting." In her defense of affirmative action, O'Connor argued that our presence "helps to break down racial stereotypes and 'enables [students] to better understand persons of different races.'" And since nearly every major employer in America has a diversity policy, I will be expected to share what O'Connor calls the "unique experience of being a racial minority" with my coworkers as well...
...Pickrick Restaurant in the wake of the newly signed Civil Rights Act--and by distributing ax handles to patrons as symbols of defiance. A frequent target of newspaper caricatures, the former soda jerk never apologized for his positions, saying in 2001, "I want my race preserved. I think forced racial integration is illegal and wrong...
...scoutmaster, schoolteacher or boarder. True enough, but most people would also say that what Tyron Garner and John G. Lawrence did in the privacy of their Texas bedroom is none of our business. The court's affirmative-action decision was just as pragmatic. Most Americans disapprove of specific, codified racial preferences, like the now famous 20 points granted minority applicants to the University of Michigan. But American life, happily, is no longer plain vanilla. Anything all-white--law-school classes, corporate suites or presidential Cabinets--is not merely aesthetically displeasing, as Clarence Thomas asserted in his dissenting opinion...