Word: racism
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Hussein's most egregious error, however, is his inflammatory assertion that American support for Israel stems from a racist understanding of Middle East ethnicity that "dehumanizes" the Palestinian people. This false accusation is an insult to all of us who have suffered from racism and other forms of ethnic and religious hatred in our nation. Americans support Israel for a number of different reasons. I suspect, however, that primary among them is the fact that despite incredible overtures for peace by Israel, the Palestinians have responded with orchestrated and fatal terror attacks on Israeli citizens and diplomatic statements that have...
...find correlations between a judge's background and how he decides cases. And biography may have played a role in this one. The Florida Four--the justices who voted for the recounts--are all outsiders of one sort or another. Quince has spoken publicly about facing racism and sexism in her career: at her first trial as a lawyer, the judge assumed she was the defendant. (And at the first oral argument in this case, when other justices were scrupulously referred to as "Your Honor," Quince was at one point addressed as "Ma'am.') Harry Lee Anstead, who is white...
...basketball in a vastly changed neighborhood. The best and brightest of them, Jamal (good newcomer Brown), penetrates his lair on a dare, and a mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places...
...Affirmative action is supposed to counter racism, but it uses racism," said Adam J. Wieczorek, a University of Michigan senior...
Cole said that state-appointed defense attorneys are often inadequate, and that prosecutors have too much discretion in deciding whom to punish--and to what extent. He said the courts have taken a "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to racism within the criminal justice system...