Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unfortunately, this assessment is as true now as it was 30 years ago. While the overtly racist tenets of conservatism have largely been forced out of political discourse, they have frequently been replaced by covert race-baiting and what Senator Patrick Moynihan (DNY) has termed "benign neglect." And overt racism is beginning to gain more and more legitimacy, as neoconservatism encourages "angry white men" to search for scapegoats...
...remains the enormous gap in wealth and power between whites and blacks. Whites still control most of the principal institutions of South African society: the corporations, the banks, the stock exchange, the media and the civil service. While Mandela has urged a color-blind society and railed against "reverse racism," whites mutter about blacks taking jobs they are not qualified for. Whether blacks have the right curriculum vitae does not really matter: affirmative action in some form is imperative and inevitable. In South Africa, unlike in America, disenfranchised blacks make up the great majority of the population, and it will...
...major flaw in "Panther" is its lack of character development which leaves one side of the conflict utterly without any motivation beyond irrational racism. Still, the film is a thought-provoking and deeply moving story of a movement in Black history whose implications are increasingly relevant to today's youth...
...external racism is secondary to a larger problem, Santiago said...
...There's a bigger problem--our internalization of racism," he said. "We wind up hating ourselves, degrading ourselves. Racial selfhatred is the most insidious from of racism because we've embraced the same racism that we claim to resist...