Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clamp tight restrictions on Palestinian day laborers, ignoring objections from the Authority. That took some of the onus for economic hardship off Hamas. "The Palestinian masses realize now that it's not Hamas' attacks that cause their suffering," says "Faris," a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank, "but the racism of the Israeli government and the weakness of the Palestinian administration...
...mark in emphasizing the "odd coalition" of adoption advocates and conservative Republicans who are averse to racial preference. In adoption, the fact that conservatives and liberals often agree is not news; adoption is the ultimate win-win solution for many. For at least 15 years, the lonely battle against racism in adoption has been waged mainly by this organization. We battle those who oppose whites adopting blacks as well as others who would stop all transracial, trans ethnic and transnational adoption. We have been aided by former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, a Democrat from Ohio, who courageously and tirelessly fought...
...first struggled for the right to train as pilots, then for the right to fly in combat, is one of the saddest lapses in U.S. military history--an important saga missing from most textbooks. Now after decades of struggle, the story of the Tuskegee airmen, and the vicious racism they overcame to become war heroes, will finally reach a wide audience. Starting on Aug. 26, with additional play dates over the following few weeks, HBO will broadcast a TV drama based on the adventures of the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron, which first went into combat in April...
...stellar group, with degrees from such top universities as Howard and Northwestern. Their military-aptitude-test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman Percy Sutton were among the 992 African Americans who eventually passed through Tuskegee--only to discover that they were still second-class citizens in the eyes of the military. The Tuskegee units were continually passed...
...wait a minute. Is this story inspiring? Or dismaying? For what McCarty is practicing, after all, is reverse discrimination, sometimes even called reverse racism. Indeed, McCarty has even set up a quota--a 100% quota. No whites need apply for one of her scholarships. It is closed to them because of the color of their skin. Is this not the very thing that all the Republican presidential candidates, and sundry moral scolds upholding the alleged "true meaning" of civil rights, have been clamoring to denounce? Where is Pete Wilson while this woman proposes to travesty the principles of racial equality...