Word: racism
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...said many undergraduates' complaints about foreign teachers stemmed from xenophobia and racism rather than legitimate difficulties with their TF's English...
...There are always people who aren't going to make the effort to understand What someone's saying," said Andrew Robertson, a second year graduate student in the History of Science Department. "Frankly, there is an element of racism that is just barely covered up by the excuse of students' interests...
Ferguson's lawyers, famed criminal defense attorney William Kunstler and co- counsel Ronald Kuby, intend to shape an insanity plea using black rage. In a widely praised 1968 study titled Black Rage, African-American psychiatrists William Grier and Price Cobbs argued that racism forced blacks to make certain social adaptations, becoming mistrustful and suspicious of outsiders. That, say Ferguson's lawyers, combined with a mental disorder, triggered their client's attack -- and should mitigate whatever punishment is meted out to him. Says Kuby: "Being exposed to racist treatment over a long period of time drove Ferguson to violence." Critics...
...resulting violence. If the courts say yes, Kunstler has reason to hope for juror empathy. A National Law Journal survey of 800 people taken in March showed that 68% of blacks and 45% of whites felt that a "compelling" defense could be made of fury resulting from long-term racism...
...National Front, led by the anti-immigration populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. He has led the party to a solid 10% vote in a series of elections dating back to 1988, despite a penchant for crude crematorium quips, a reportedly secret admiration for Hitler and a not-so-secret racism. The extreme-right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district. In May's municipal elections, they lost it again but, encouraged, the B.N.P. together with a handful of other...