Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detective Mark Fuhrman, the key investigator in the O.J. Simpson case who has been repeatedly accused of racism by the defense, has been given a desk job, apparently to take him out of the line of political fire. Judge Lance Ito, who's overseeing the trial, forbade the defense access to the officer's military record, ABC News reported. Fuhrman had testified he found a key piece of evidence being used by the prosecution: a bloody glove on the Simpson estate. Fuhrman's attorney said the decision had nothing to do with the Simpson case but added that his client...
...have never accepted that what they considered a radical egalitarian democracy was in fact a cruel totalitarian dictatorship. Until the left is willing to re-examine its ideological premises and admit its past mistakes, argues Genovese, it will have no moral credibility to attack such ongoing societal ills as racism and sexism. "The left will have to clean up its act if it wishes to survive or deserves to survive," he contends. "We will fail if we do not re-examine our long- standing premises...
...When people yell racism when in fact there is no racism," says Tavis Smiley, a black commentator for KABC in Los Angeles, "they become like the boy who cried 'Wolf!' Ultimately, it comes back to haunt...
...though, Horne heated up when she brought Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music to Broadway. In that autobiographical show, she vented her rage over her years as a white man's sex symbol and a victim of Hollywood racism, and proved that in her 60s she was more electrifying than ever. Now, at 76, Horne is back with her most ambitious recording in years, and it's a stunner. The lady has soul, and it's no longer on ice. We'll Be Together Again is a collection of 16 songs written by composers ranging from Duke Ellington...
...compare Bolton and the Nobel prizewinner may seem farfetched, but the woman behind Gal uses language with a Bellovian zest. She even has something of Bellow's broad moral overview. Gal is not about racism, feminism or victimization. The book enters the darkness of a "no-love family" without self-pity or bitterness and moves steadily toward the light. The sense of authentic experience eagerly seized is sharp on every page...