Word: racism
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...dispatched a memo to university presidents and Internet service providers about hate and bigotry on the World Wide Web. The Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group based in California, suggests that universities and providers, such as Netscape, Inc., limit access to certain web pages that preach anti-Semitism, racism and violence...
...aggressive stand on domestic violence, to the exclusion of any other issues in the trial, has also offended many both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered "a needed break from all that talk of racism." During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: "You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture"--a statement that some listeners interpreted...
...voted in favor of censuring Bruce. "But then I listened to African-American people being interviewed after the verdict, and I realized that we had overlooked injustice to people of color." NOW's national resolution decrees that "NOW commits itself to intense internal examination of its own residual racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders in NOW intimidating the white leaders,'' says Michigan NOW member Tracy Ann Martin. "I'm not afraid of being called a racist. My credentials go back too far.'' Asks Toni Carabillo, national vice president of the Feminist Majority...
...Simpson may have been a victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they had to do was replay in their minds the videotape of the savage beating administered four years earlier to an unemployed black construction worker named Rodney King. One whiff of the foul odor of institutional racism--and retired detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness, stank to high heaven--and a case that many had thought unshakable became unmakable...
...DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS The free-lance private eye's lot was never a happy one--ask Philip Marlowe. But he didn't have to fight racism while trying to fight crime. Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), a black man, does. And it grants Carl Franklin's cool, crisp adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel (set in classic noirland, '40s L.A.) the edge, weight and revitalizing relevance long needed by a genre often made limply nostalgic...