Word: racism
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...media has highlighted racial discrimination at Texaco, in part because it directly affects people in America and in part because national leaders have called for a boycott. But the sins of Texaco are much older, and run much deeper, than the recent allegations of racism...
...environmental devastation, especially in developing countries such as Ecuador and Burma. Although its practices have little effect on Americans except to lower the price at the pump, any responsible citizen of the world should be out-raged at the company's reprehensible outward behavior as well as the racism within...
...staff's knee-jerk reaction to the uncovering of severe racism at Texaco wrongly calls for the University to divest should Harvard not be able to clear the oil company of its tarnished name. In so doing, a mistaken question is posed: The issue is not whether Texaco's executives have institutionalized racism there (they have), but how Harvard can most effectively combat that racism...
...equal-opportunity brochures? Why was it so hard for black Texaco employees to be taken seriously when they complained about being called "porch monkeys" and "orangutans" by co-workers and being passed over for promotions? In short, why are so many whites ready to declare that the war against racism has been won when fresh evidence that it is alive and well pops up all the time? Even as Texaco was scrambling to repair its image last week, Avis was sued for refusing to serve blacks in North and South Carolina...
...required to frame O.J., there was no security breach (although the J.F.K.-assassination conspiracy of 212 people from seven federal and state agencies remains the record to beat). This was especially remarkable given their diverse reasons for involvement. Of the 21 co-conspirators, five indicated they were motivated by racism, 13 were covering for fellow cops, and three said they were attracted to the purely technical challenge of framing a completely innocent man in full view of the world media...