Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson's biggest failing was probably with race relations on campus. He did nothing about the harassment of Black students by police officers, the most pressing issue facing the department today. The accusations of racism after the police intervened at the Adams House rap concert a few weeks ago is only the most recent occurrence of minority students feeling they receive prejudiced treatment from police...
President Clinton has sensibly yielded to the American people and agreed to review the Federal government's catalogue of affirmative action programs. We hope Congress and the President will finally put the injustice of legalized racism to rest...
...writes, an "intentionally deceitful" work written by two men and touted by others who have sought to "advance racism as serious scholarship." That a host of scholars, journalists and others have defended it as expressing a point of view worthy of discussion offers a trenchant example of the evasion of moral responsibility in practice, and is a chilling measure of how suffused with all forms of bigotry American society is once again. Such a book could be given the measure of credence it has gained only in a climate of rising intolerance...
...declare what many others still refuse to acknowledge: that the Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program
...Geneva. He is accused of misusing some $800,000 in foreign contributions to his Foundation for Peace and Justice. He denies any wrongdoing, and earlier, when a team of Johannesburg lawyers investigated and said he had ``enriched himself'' with foreign funds, he accused them of racism. Last week President Mandela accepted his withdrawal tersely, ``with regret...