Word: racism
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...painted and shaken when I heard the news that Lenard was beaten nearly to death by three white teens in Chicago--but I was not terribly surprised. Appalling as this merciless act of brutality was, it is one among many that points to the chilling fact that racism in America is alive and well...
Most blacks will not think that I am making a starling claim. Indeed, thoughtful Americans of all backgrounds see the existence of racism as a very real if unfortunate fact of American life. Racism is like a terrible disease which no one admits to having but which silently, stealthily claims its victims...
...Harvard cannot feel safe if we can mentally quarantine the disease that festered in the South of the past or the Chicago of today or the L.A. of 1992. For racism has its victims here in Cambridge as well. I have felt the fear of fellow pedestrians almost palpably as I walk down Mass. Ave., or to and from my dorm, because I am supposed to represent some gun-toting black monster who is out to rape or rob or kill. I have kept calm and cool even as my brow begins to sweat over accusations that somehow...
...weeks ago, Peninsula comp posters with the slogan "Faith, family and freedom" were parodied with posters equating the group with "racism, fear and bigotry...
...amount of money will compensate for the miscarriage of justice in the criminal trial. I can only hope that those who feel Simpson is innocent will review the evidence presented at both the criminal and civil trials. This entire ordeal was not about racism. Instead it was about photographs, footprints, fingerprints, cuts, blood, dna, shoes, diaries, domestic abuse and, most important, O.J.'s lies. ANTOINETTE ROWE Burnaby, British Columbia...