Word: racism
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...Davis, the sophomore fashion-merchandising student who filed the discrimination complaint, says some of her sorority sisters who knew the black teenager had spoken highly of her - until it came time to assess this year's pledges. "There was an undercurrent of unspoken racism," says Davis. Most of her sorority sisters, she says, voted not to admit the black freshman, who has not been named...
...dinners on Martha's Vineyard with movie stars, the lunches at Manhattan's Mortimer's restaurant with the society crowd). He indulges the old New Deal intellectual's habit of bashing business and businessmen in an almost recreational way. (At one point he blithely equates capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a coworker's journal noted, "Arthur... boldly looked...
Price called prosecution of drug offenses "one of the most searing examples of racism in our country," citing statistics that the number of blacks convicted of drug offenses outnumber whites by 2 to 1, even though there are 5 times more white cocaine users...
...should experience. But it is time for the Aborigines to move on. Constant protests will eventually work against them. The key to a strong race is education, persistence and a lot of hard work. Many of us Asians went to Australia with empty pockets, and we suffered racism and unfair treatment. But through our sweat we became proud and respected citizens. I urge the Aborigines to do the same. Forget about the past; it is the future that counts. ANNA XU Hong Kong
...firmly believe that it's not the artist's job to give the answers to racism and I never attempted to provide an answer to "institutional" racism. All I know is that in the universe I created [in the film], people have...