Word: racism
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...decide if [the service] is just a superficial effort by the Dean of Students' office now that [Students at Harvard and Radcliffe Against Racism and Ethnocentrism] is gone," he said...
...real complaint is that the violence initiative doesn't go nearly far enough. Some laboratory should be looking for the racism gene, or the homophobia gene. Goodwin was right; the inner city is a jungle. But so are the corporation, the newsroom and the White House staff. The language of trial lawyers or bond traders in full testosterone fury is as bloodcurdling as any mugger's. When it comes to social carnage, the convenience-store stickup can't compare with a leveraged buyout, trickling-down unemployment, depression, anger, alcoholism, divorce, domestic abuse and addiction. I'd like to see white...
Kennedy said he agreed with some of Steele'spoints, but also said that racism is a continuingproblem, and "Blacks are held to account" bywhites...
...blame racism for the problems affecting Blacks in America is largely a mistake, Shelby Steele, a professor of English at San Jose State University, told an audience of 475 people at the Kennedy School of Government's Arco Forum last night...
Problems facing the Black community, like gang violence and unemployment, stem from far more complex causes than racism, Steele said. "The temptation is to say. 'Clearly that's racism, clearly that's oppression," he said...