Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many, black people speak about the need to raise themselves up and overcome oppression, about how our country is still steeped in racism and how it is still hard for "the black man" to achieve economic success in today's society except by overcoming extraordinary odds. If black people are still oppressed and are still struggling to achieve, exactly what has the Civil Rights movement accomplished...
...Wiesel added, "No one should ever speak out superiority. Racism is stupid, it is stupid...
...distressed. But it is because of the great horror of the subject matter, not the quality of Chicago's work, that one encounters such feelings. True, many of the exhibit's works are graphic and almost cartoon-like. True, she compares the Holocaust to other issues such as racism, sexism and nuclear waste disposal. Yet she handles all of the issues so deftly and with such balance that, despite the darkness and horror that fill the journey, one continues to follow Chicago's voice on the tiny headset through it, from the despair-filled beginning to the beautiful and hopeful...
...government assistance, which, African Americans contend, rather than disabling black families by creating excessive dependencies has been inadequate to their needs. These antipodal positions have been hardened by an intellectual debate between those who state that antiblack sentiment has never been more harsh and those who claim that racism is dead...
...with the voice of Nicole Brown's terrified voice on tape pleading for police help. Chris Darden stayed up until 4:30 in the morning writing his closing argument. What the jurors never heard was a line he considered in an early draft about Cochran and the role of racism in the trial: how the right of free speech does not include the right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire...