Word: racism
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...stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people," Mandela said...
...still have a chance for glory in the team competition. In our first bout we had faced Detroit and Salt Lake City. After an intense show, with poems on topics ranging from racism to date rape, a Detroit poet rocked the room with a sharp, stylized jazz piece, pushing her team ahead by 0.3. But my teammate Jerry pulled out a powerhouse finale about his cousin's death, and we skated into first place by a scant 0.1. We also won the next two nights, moving into the Final Four with Dallas, Cleveland and New York...
...middle class. He suggests that the black community can be developed without a preference for its most needy element. This is hardly a civil rights remedy, and Bond, an elitist, has never seemed comfortable with any plan to empower the masses of black people. Despite what he believes, white racism is not black America's most important challenge. Black elitism and the lack of self-empowerment are. TONY BROWN, Host Tony Brown's Journal, PBS New York City...
...much comfort to Patricia Smith, another popular Globe columnist who was fired last month for a similar, if more serious charge of fabricating characters. Smith is a black woman; Barnicle a white male. Inevitably, the disparity of punishment will leave the Globe open to charges of racism. That was one of the reasons Storin and Taylor dithered for so long, which in turn caused the rival Boston Herald great glee: "What a bunch of idiots," they quoted one Globe staffer saying about his management's indecision...
...panel, my friend Page, attempting to prove racism was still rampant, told of black teenagers being hassled by white cops in his Chicago suburb. Had I thought to say it then, I would have suggested that 40 years ago, Page's family would not have been living in that suburb...