Word: racism
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After stewing for years in what might seem like standard working-class racism, Walt has to resolve his soldiering in the Korean War--when, he tells Tao, "I used to stash guys like you five feet high in Korea. Used 'em for sandbags." Still haunted by killings that now weigh on him like war crimes, he must emerge from his white-picket cave of bitterness and find a purpose for his life: to become a guardian angel to Tao and Sue and an angel of death to anyone who'd do these decent kids harm...
...that’s beside the point: Next time you mix up someone’s name or race, simply ask them again and try to train your eye so you remember for the future. Just don’t bring racism into it. Anita J Joseph ’12, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Wigglesworth Hall...
...plainly stated the positive impact a black candidate had on mobilizing the black community to vote and become involved. I am a middle-aged white woman who voted for Obama because I believe him to be the best candidate. I do not pretend to empathize with the pain of racism, but to tell whites that Obama's race didn't have that much to do with why blacks voted the way they did is what is really "disingenuous." Am I not allowed to also hope for an end to racism and its effects? I may not have suffered from them...
...change are blasting. First, Kofi Annan became the first African Secretary-General of the United Nations, and now Obama is the first African-American President of the United States. My pride is not because these men are African like me, it's because mankind now sees the folly of racism, and people are judged not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. Stories like Obama's make people see the greatness of America. America's greatness is not projected when she attacks pariah states which do not threaten her and I am confident that...
...course, there are limits to what government can do. No law can legislate away ignorance. That’s where we come in as individuals. Latent racism exists in communities all across America, and all of us must resolve to fight bigoted attitudes through our words and our examples. If Barack Obama’s historic victory has taught us anything, it’s that individual actions do matter because there is strength in numbers...