Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good is likely to flow from the outpouring of attention on the Nation of Islam and its relationship to the black political establishment. First, Khallid Abdul Muhammad's notorious, hateful speech at Kean College and Louis Farrakhan's affirmation of its substance (though not its style) demonstrated anew that racism resides at the core of the Nation of Islam. Bigotry is not one of its peripheral features but is instead a central element of its identity and appeal. Second, an issue of fundamental importance has been raised: Should racism expressed by African Americans be openly repudiated by other African Americans...
...differently: the persistence of racism in America notwithstanding, the age of American racism has been succeeded by the age of American racialism. Racism and racialism agree that the color of a person's skin is an essential attribute of the person. For racism, the attribute is a negative one. For racialism, the attribute is a positive one. For a just social order, of course, the attribute is a neutral one. Neutral, not because race is not a fact; neutral, because race is not a value. Many people who do not share Farrakhan's bizarre beliefs share this belief that race...
...country would Jews themselves have disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda, in the certainty that its dissemination would protect them? The A.D.L.'s response to Farrakhan was an expression of the confidence of American Jews in America. I do not expect quite this degree of confidence in America from American blacks; racism, not anti-Semitism, has always been America's ugliness of choice, and the fate of blacks in America was, for whole centuries, obscene. In this century, however, this country has challenged its black citizens precisely as it has challenged its Jewish citizens. The political and philosophical procedures of America have...
Second, I can't stand the hypocrisy coming from some in the Jewish world who for decades have used the Holocaust and the history of our very real oppression as an excuse to deny our own racism toward blacks or Palestinians. In our frantic attempts to make it in America, we not only fixed our noses and straightened our hair and learned to talk more softly and genteelly to be acceptable to Wasp culture, but we also began to buy the racist assumptions of this society and to forget our own history of oppression. Jewish neoconservatives at Commentary magazine...
...Farrakhan is because to do so distracts us from the deep underlying crisis of meaning in American society that is central to why people are in so much pain that they are willing to seek any kind of anesthetic, from drugs and alcohol to communities based on fascism and racism...