Word: racisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lerner's vexation is the "narrow self-interest" which he believes pervades America and is the causal force behind all of our social dilemmas. It is such a mind-set, he says, that has fostered the recent burgeoning of anti-Black racism and anti-Semitism. He writes: "These kinds of sicknesses are expressions of the dominant selfishness of American society, and we do not believe they can be fully defeated without addressing the need to shift the dominant discourse from an ethos of selfishness to an ethos of caring...
...fact, organized by the Democratic Socialists of America at Harvard Divinity School.) Socialism itself is the primary error in judgment of both Lerner and West. Because of their lack of faith in our capitalist republic, they find it necessary to reconstruct the entire nation in order to defeat racism and anti-Semitism...
What is especially hideous and dangerous about this form of racism is that it can be practiced subtly. A respected investigative journalist claimed in a television interview last night that the Arab American community must do more to contain the violent element that resides in its midst. That comment captures the tenor of the majority of the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments that can be found everywhere...
...bombing in Oklahoma City, the Arab American Council in New York received no fewer than 16 bomb threats. This only underscores the fact that Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim prejudice is, regrettably, alive and well in our society. We must not tolerate this ugly and insidious brand of racism...
...that white students have the comfort of living around other white students regardless of what house in which they live. Why aren't' Black and Latinos allowed that same comfort? After all, Blacks and Latinos have more reason than whites to want to self-segregate due to undying white racism present on this campus and in every stage of our lives...