Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having attended the speech, I noticed a great falsity presented in both stories. Martin did not spend the majority of his time speaking about Jewish contributions to the racism in the Western world. He merely gave evidence which suggested that pseudo-scientific racism stems from pseudo-religious racism, which first appeared in the Babylonian Talmud...
...glad she freely expressed it. But she's dead wrong, and she should have realized just how divisive her words were. Moreover, it's hypocritical for the leader of the Black Students Association--an organization that has expressed support for minority rights and strong opposition to racism--to endorse racist views that so obviously denigrate and insult another minority...
Martin's labored attempt to connect the origins of anti-Black racism with a work written in ancient Babylon strains the imagination. So, too, does the facility with which he dismisses the myriad forms of bigotry and injustice that have always been present in human history...
...leaders like Kristen Clarke, who have risen to campus prominence by gaining the respect of their peers, will no doubt have an enormous impact on the future leadership of the African-American community. The Kristen Clarkes of America's campuses will soon be on the front lines, fighting against racism and other societal and historical impediments to better lives for African-Americans. This is why we should all be thinking about Kristen Clarke...
...biggest question, I suppose, is whether Kristen Clarke thinks, in the face of The Bell Curve and all sorts of racism in American society, that Black students should fixate on Martin's imagined notions of Judaism and the Jewish people as enemies of Black folk...