Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These cases are not set out to prove that racism against Asians prevents deserving people from holding office. It is all too easy to lay the blame on others, while skirting the real issue at hand...
...referred to statistics--the numbers of buildings, students and police officers at Harvard--when the real issue was police conduct. He argued that his department's problem was mainly one of perception, blaming the media and suspects who are stopped by the police for confusing proper police procedure with racism...
...nation that for so long was associated with despotism and racism has finally held elections that allow all people, black and white, the right to vote. Though the official numbers are not yet in, Nelson Mandela appears likely to be the clear victor. His ascension to the presidency of South Africa would be an eloquent symbol for the victory of democracy in his country: he from prisoner to leader, the country from oligarchy to democracy...
...between two cultures. Known as the Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste series, these Chagall-like images may be flawed by sentimentality but they achieve at times a tragic gravity, and are virtually the first effort by a white Australian artist to express the guilt of racism...
...segregation has in several places gone beyond issues of comfort. When the practice reaches levels like that Cornell, where whole, dorms are set aside for people of a certain color, it merits concern, and condemnation. At this level, self-segregation stops being about individual comfort and begins being about racism and division. The assumption behind an all-Black dorm is that there is some benefit in having people of a certain race, and only that race, living together...