Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mansfield want to "stomp out" the Strategic Offense Society for pointing out the racism that he would like to cloak in the form of jokes. We're hurting his image. Although bigotry is omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist...
Before he died of AIDS in 1994, Marlin Riggs had amassed an impressive collection of films to his credit: "Ethnic Notions," "Color Adjustments" and the highly acclaimed but controversial "Tongues United." Riggs covered a range of topics concerning the black experience, from racism to black male homosexuality...
West, professor of Afro-American studies and professor of the philosophy of religion at the Divinity School, said that a legacy of racism and the effects of a market culture undermined the democratic tradition...
...L.A.P.D. has a lot of racists, and racism certainly clouded the judgment of some of the officers and evidence collectors involved in this case. There should be repercussions for this, and there should be retribution. But is it revenge to free a man viewed by many as a murderer, or is it simply cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...
...afford legal representation, and about whom we hear nothing. Likewise, Nicole Simpson is not Everyvictim, and Mark Fuhrman is not Everyracist. When we create these false archetypes as a culture, we avoid confronting the very real systemic issues and problems that are elements of the trial: violence toward women; racism; and our national obsession with celebrity, race, sex and money. Whatever the verdict, I don't think the O.J. Simpson trial will have a deep, profound or lasting resonance in American culture. It will not be transformative. It's a bad miniseries gone out of control...