Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Star asks the question, "Beyond racism, are black people...still oppressed?" He answers his own query, writing. "If you take the indirect and circumstantial route, yes.... If you take the direct route, no." He continues his string of contradictions by naming police brutality as a tool of institutional oppression. Star then states that police brutality "actively hurt[s] the black community and keep[s] it from achieving everything that it can." Once again, these two ideas are incompatible. How can police brutality actively hurt the black community, yet not be considered a "direct" form of oppression? We contend that...
Star states that "overt institutional racism [is] the conservative right's natural reaction to the Civil Rights movement." There is nothing "natural" about racism. It is a learned response to insecurities, fear and ignorance. The use of the word "natural" also implies that a governmental response of racism is merited by the actions of the Civil Rights movement. We suggest that racism was not a "natural response" to the Civil Rights movement, but that the movement was a "natural response" to the racism already in existence...
Perhaps the most disturbing idea proposed in Star's editorial is that the black people's discontent with America today stems solely from their resentment of prior incidents of racism. Star himself admits that racial biases have long prevented equality of opportunity. "Exactly what is the black community mad about?" he asks. "There has never been a time in American history when all members of the black race have had opportunities before them." Star has accepted racism as an intrinsic part of the status quo and views its apparent permanence as a reason for black people to concede defeat, passively...
...what is the black community mad about?" Well, among other things, confused and ignorant apologies for racism by people such as Marriah Star. --Joshua D. Powe '98 Treasurer, Black Students Association Patrick J. Klemawesch...
Professor West was in good company. The Left media--both on this campus and throughout the nation--were strangely silent about Minister Farrakhan's homophobia and his vicious racism. Only his decision to exclude women from the march elicited any indignance whatsoever. Bracketing is what happens when a great big sacred cow--in this case, race--comes up against a mere sacred calf--lets say, sexuality. The Left gets so completely caught up in the worship of the former that they forget about the latter...