Word: racism
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...India's Parliament, Prime Minister Nehru called for an end to H-bomb tests, and tried to drum up Asian racism by noting that most atomic damage had been wreaked on Asians...
...When most people, myself included, think of racism against black Americans, we usually think of men - situations like police pulling over black male drivers, Klansmen dragging black men through the streets, the systemic problems that land black men in prison at seven times the rate of white...
...doctor. They've started trying hard to prove he's crazy. Is he? Are others in my family? I can't say, because I'm not a psychiatrist. What I can say is this: [my children] experienced some very hard, ugly things in life - racism, rejection, injustice, violence - and in some cases have reacted in ways that are just as hard. In some cases, they became really sick. With Zacary, I think he sought out people and ideas as extreme as the humiliation and fury he experienced before he became an Islamist...
...Without succumbing to defensiveness or pride, I think a lot has been said here in the interests of defending my son that is more nuanced than you might have heard. My children have seen hard, hard things. A violent father, racism, rejection, their identity questioned - French-born children of this nation made to feel like they don't belong. Djamila, my oldest daughter, had her head cut open as a child when her father threw a glass at her. Later, she was thrown out of a teenage party she'd been invited to by a father who said Arabs weren...
...Losing a lacrosse program for a few years seems like nothing compared to what this scandal could do to this university and community. The talk of racism, sexism and binge drinking that has accompanied this case, to a certain extent, has forced the university to look at the big picture - and confront tough issues beyond the alleged rape of a 27-year-old black student at a nearby college...