Word: racism
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Giving his audience a history lesson on racism in America, former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins encouraged a crowd of about 80 students last night to make a personal investment in the struggle against hatred...
While he acknowledged that many in the Emerson Hall lecture room had experienced racism first-hand, Dinkins said he could provide special perspective into the ways hate has pervaded society...
...current trend--amazingly--is for people to question the existence of racism or ignore its pervasiveness," the 71-year-old Dinkins said. "We live in a racist society...
Arguing that "African Americans in the United States ought to challenge racism when any group of people is touched by depravity," Dinkins said "too many good people are silent...
...only as I grow older and struggle with my own plans and desires to "save the world" from the evils of racism, sexism, homophobia and capitalism, that I have begun to see this man as a shining example of what can be achieved through passion and perseverance. In 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 28 years. He was sent there because he chose to fight against repression. He did what so many activists and proto-activists claim, by struggling to bring change to a country which exploited its labor, wrongfully imprisoned its citizens and encouraged full-scale segregation...