Word: racially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sharpton said that he would be the voice of the disenfranchised—a group he later identified as including racial minorities, women and members of the working class...
...dressed up as Osama bin Laden in the video.) On the album's opening cut, White America, the rapper whose lyrics preoccupied moralists in Congress in the summer of 2000--when they had more time on their hands--declared war on the Bush Administration and slammed his critics as racial hypocrites who discovered rap only when white teens started listening to it: "Hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston." It's Eminem's most political song, even if it is rooted in his bottomless sense of personal grievance, which seems to grow in direct proportion...
...quite simply about the soul of the Republican Party. For decades, since the Republicans became the repository for some white Southern resentment of the civil rights era, the G.O.P. has walked a delicate line between legitimate support for small government and strong defense of and illegitimate reliance on racial resentments. In the past five years or so, there has been a welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly, the black campaigner against affirmative action, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, public servants like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice...
Whatever he now says, Lott's endurance as the Senate's G.O.P. leader is a direct attack on that mission. The issue is not whether Lott is a racist or a segregationist. We cannot know what is in his heart. The issue is Lott's astonishing record of racial obtuseness. This is a man who has twice uttered public statements regretting the end of Jim Crow. He voted against a federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. "Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," he wrote in a 1981 amicus brief defending Bob Jones University's ban on interracial dating...
...RESIGNED. TRENT LOTT, 61, Republican Senate majority leader whose recent remarks implied that he favored racial segregation in the U.S.; in Washington, D.C. Tennessee Senator Bill Frisk has emerged as the White House favorite...