Word: racism
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...interesting but not wholly plausible twist, despite Earl's "white" identity and Southern roots, it is actually he who shakes off his prejudices most easily. Beneath Earl's expressionless facade, he harbors no real racism and sincerely wants to get to know this brother he has never known. Ray's conversion is the true struggle: though outwardly courteous, he holds on to his resentment and his hatred to the very end. An undercurrent of tension therefore remains up to the day of Earl's departure, when Aunt T. shares a secret with them both that dissolves the final barrier between...
This racist message is evidence that hateful attitudes can still thrive here. Although Harvard is often characterized as America's premier institution of higher learning, it is not immune from the anti-intellectual forces of prejudice and racism...
Carter tries to extricate himself from the swamps of moral relativism by postulating that some ideas are, after all, just plain evil, and as examples of such genuine, integrity-destroying evil, he offers racism and genocide. Thus the Nazi operative couldn't be a man of integrity, no matter how much "discerning" he engages in, because genocide is just, well, over the top. But evil, in Integrity, seems a pretty makeshift deus ex machina. If, for example, racism is such a self-evident no-no, then why not sexism--including any attempt to restrict women's reproductive choices...
Considering the tenacity of racism, reflected in the success of Pat Buchanan's nativist white power candidacy, any concession to bigotry does seem risky. Affirmative action is under attack, and racism in the criminal justice system is still rampant. In a society that values equality, or virtue, people shouldn't have a right to act on their biases; that is the basic premise of all anti-discrimination law. They do, however, have a right to believe in them. Civil rights laws reach actions, not speeches or ideas, and they don't even reach all actions. David Duke and Louis Farrakhan...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The army issued a report showing minimal evidence of extremist activity in the service but reported an undercurrent of subtle racism in the ranks. The report came from a task force commissioned last December after the killings of a black couple near a Fayetteville, North Carolina military base. The study concluded that although membership in hate groups is small, rules regarding active or passive participation in such groups must be clarified. However, because such rules come from the Department of Defense -- and not the Army -- the panel recommends that the Army push Defense to tighten...