Word: racism
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...boycott was not about African Americans wanting to sit where they chose on a bus; it was about furthering the goal of racial equality in America. Similarly, the Michigan boycott is not about whether any group of students should have control over a college newspaper. It is about combating racism and setting a standard of racial equality on campus...
...battles of combating racism will not be waged in the cornfields where the Klan rallies of my Ohio upbringing took place—the views of that select and diminishing segment will never again be accepted in mainstream society—but rather we must be vigilant about the proxies through which their biases still find an outlet. The current fight is against the subtle, yet painfully consistent, message of bigotry that language and demeanor can convey. Even more insidious can be the manifestation of racism when these attitudes are recognized and tacitly accepted by those in position to prevent...
...Gallup Poll that was reported by the Newhouse News Source, 62 percent of whites and 91 percent of African Americans believe that we haven’t yet reached racial equality in America. Even putting aside the huge gap in perception, there is undeniable consensus that racism is still a part of the mainstream. If not perpetrated by extremists, how then is such a feeling so thoroughly ingrained in our culture? Through the very nature of our dialogue. In the case of the Daily, as posted on the boycott’s website, these subtleties were seen...
...panel, which consisted of two HLS faculty and a former inmate-turned-activist, argued that racism and the profiteering of the prison-industrial complex were responsible for skewed prison demographics...
...believer in the prison-industrial complex. I would say [it’s] racism,” she said. “If it were white kids doing time for their crimes. . .laws would get changed...