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...between whites and non-whites. The Asian youths then turned on the police. The violence left dozens injured, cars torched and properties smashed. Though Oldham has quieted down, race relations are likely to remain contentious issues even after the election. Says Chris Myant, of the publicly funded Commision for Racial Equality (C.R.E.), "While you have a picture of significant success in some areas, you still have a vast backlog of problems pulling down a number of groups, and you still have a high degree of racial prejudice among some white members of the public...
...Even before the campaign started, the C.R.E. asked M.P.s to sign a pledge calling on candidates to refrain from stirring up racial hostility. It sounds harmless, but some refused on the grounds that it was wrong for the group to enforce "political correctness." Shortly thereafter, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook suggested - to some derision - that Britain's multicultural success was shown by chicken tikka masala becoming the country's most popular dish. Then a retiring Tory backbencher raised temperatures when he said the British were becoming a "mongrel" race through immigration. Hague forced him to apologize. The gusts of opinion that...
...advertisement, Horowitz argues "there is no single group responsible for the crime of slavery" and claims "reparations to African Americans have already been paid...in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences...
...Clair also took on many other controversial cases in his decades of practice as a trial lawyer. He represented the Boston School Commission in a suit by black parents over racial segregation and defended the chaplain of Yale when he was accused on helping students evade the draft during the Vietnam...
...Soon to be gone are Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel, whose 15-year tenure is the longest among current masters, and Dunster House Master Karel Liem, who criticized Lewis soon after his resignation for a lack of diversity among masters. Liem is currently the only member of a racial minority group to lead a House...