Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government and for possibly feathering her nest, is Mandela's estranged wife Winnie. Two weeks ago in Johannesburg, at the funeral of a black police officer killed in a fight with white policemen, Winnie Mandela addressed the crowd of mourners. She accused the government of failing to eliminate racism from the workplace and of ``overindulgence in reconciliation'' with whites. ``Are we in power,'' she demanded, ``or just in the government...
When Charles A. Murray '65 spoke at the Institute of Politics last week, he demonstrated why his brand of racism is so subtle and so dangerous. He has tried to disguise The Bell Curve as an academic work and has attempted to hide his pseudoscientific musings, tainted sources, lies and distortions behind a mountain of legitimate facts and statistics. But the tremendous amount of criticism of The Bell Curve that has recently been published has completely debunked this flawed book. In fact, even a cursory study of The Bell Curve and its criticism proves that Murray's work is intentionally...
...Kampf. Major portions of the book deal with race, and the assumptions of the chapters on race are used to justify major changes in public policy, from welfare to affirmative action. The Bell Curve is a political and not a scientific work--it subjectively molds facts and relies on racism to advance its politically motivated theories...
...More racism creeps in when Murray addresses America's racial problems. He urges Blacks to pursue a "wise ethnocentrism"--that is, not striving for intellectual advancement and representation in the upper echelons of education and the workplace, but being content with achievement as musicians and athletes...
...revolt of the '60s, leftists reinterpreted American history and argued that the dream of freedom and equality was a farce of slaveowners. Yet while racism is part of the American past, each generation has seen our society grow more open and more inclusive. If we cannot claim a just past, we surely can look at a progress toward justice...