Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall of 1990 Ferguson enrolled at Adelphi University and got into angry confrontations with teachers and students, accusing white students of racism and black activists of being "Uncle Toms." "Black rage will get you," he told a black professor. He talked loudly of violent race wars and revolution. He interrupted a lecture by yelling "Kill everybody white!" By 1991, he was suspended. In 1992 his ex-wife, who has not spoken to him since their divorce, filed a complaint with police charging that Ferguson had pried open the trunk of her car. Ferguson also clashed with police when...
Nelson Mandela's legacy to the South African nation is secure. He will forever be remembered as a patriot, as a stalwart veteran of the liberation struggle, and as a remarkable visionary in the fight against racism. These speeches are essential reading for historians, activists and followers of the anti-apartheid movement. They chart four years in the life of a man capable of immense self-sacrifice in service of his principles, whose power and importance will be felt long after he is gone. At the April 1993 funeral of slain ANC veteran Chris Hani, Mandela delivered what surely...
Nevertheless, discrimination still exists, though not as blatantly as in the '50s and '60s. Rather than being institutionalized, racism against Asians exists as societal misperceptions and unflattering stereotypes. Yet activism by and for the Asian American population is rare. So-called "minority programs" tend to ignore Asians, and Asian American groups themselves are often entirely apolitical...
...Blacks have often encountered impediments in science," he said. "They have confronted overt racism in many face-to-face encounters...
...University of Pennsylvania, black students who disliked a student's columns challenging affirmative action and the character of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stole 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian and said they were combating "institutional racism." At Duke University, gays who did not like a student columnist's opinion that theirs was "a dirty, sinful lifestyle that doesn't deserve any special rights" blocked his way to class and shouted epithets. At neither Penn nor Duke were the perpetrators disciplined. During the academic year that ended in June, there were 12 major incidents of U.S. campus papers stolen...