Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to a 1987 Stanford University survey, at least 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century. Just since 1973 an additional 48 have been freed from death row when evidence of their innocence surfaced before their sentences were carried out. Too, says Blackmun, the "virus of racism" pervades the penalty's application. Studies confirmed by the General Accounting Office in 1990 report that blacks who kill whites are sentenced to death at "nearly 22 times the rate of blacks who kill blacks and more than seven times the rate of whites who kill blacks." Thus, despite...
Coleman said baseball's racial history has been a mixed one. He said the years of segregation in baseball before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1948 demonstrated blatant racism, but noted that Robinson began playing seven years before Brown v. Board of Education and 16 years before the Civil Rights...
...want to be associated with a house that tries to perpetuate a trap of elitism, that everyone knows invokes image of anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, sexism and classism," Oppenheimer said...
Molina said she had fought political battles both as a woman and as a Latino, often having to decide whether racism or sexism was more important...
...second component of his theory does have minimal import. I agree that there may be some instance where African-Americans have over-emphasized racism. I also agree with his argument that African-Americans share some of the burden for their present conditions. However, to suggest that race is no longer the primary or even crucial variable in the analysis is ludicrous. Given this history, the burden of proof rests on Steel's shoulders. His argument that African-Americans exaggerate racism for increased social benefits will only hold up if he can demonstrate that the cases of exaggerate racism numerically approach...