Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cochran brings another key ingredient to the mix--his credibility in the African-American community. For despite pronouncements by Shapiro and others that race will not be a factor (even in the face of defense allegations of racism on the part of LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman)--and despite the fact that the fairness of O.J. Simpson's trial will more likely hinge upon issues of class and celebrity than upon skin color--the specter of racism looms large both inside the courtroom and out. ``Since so many African Americans don't trust the criminal-justice system--and for good reasons...
...videos were only recently uncovered by journalists and made available for public broadcast. Shortly after the tapes aired, top officials in Ottawa again announced that there was ``zero tolerance'' for racism in the military. ``I can only express my outrage and disgust. These people denigrate our proud Canadian military heritage,'' said Defense Minister David Collenette, who ordered General John de Chastelain, chief of defense staff, ``to investigate this matter and to report on it'' by Jan. 23. Prime Minister Jean Chretien went a step further. ``If we have to dismantle the Airborne Regiment, we'll dismantle it,'' he said while...
...Rebels were forbidden to make open displays of racism, but there was no indication of how that vague order could be enforced. In any case, to anyone with firsthand knowledge of the racism problem, the prohibition seemed too tame and too late...
Council member Cachan's accusation of insensitivity and near racism by randomization opponents is misplaced and misguided. Hopefully he will refrain from similarly offensive, inflammatory, and unproductive remarks in the future. --C.R. McFadden...
...DIFFICULT TO BE A YOUNG BLACK filmmaker like John Singleton. His race tends to impose racism on him as a subject. His youth and his status as a generational spokesman oblige him to assume a particular attitude, an outraged political correctness that extends to other, nonracial matters (notably sexism). His audience, which is also young, meanwhile makes, or seems to make, contradictory demands on him -- for violently dramatic confrontations on one hand; for hopeful, or at least not entirely bleak, conclusions on the other...