Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heartaches, but Lee Blessing takes on big political questions, finding the human dimension without stinting the abstraction. Since his 1987 breakthrough work, A Walk in the Woods, about nuclear arms control, he has tackled Beirut hostage taking (Two Rooms), the Gulf War (Fortinbras), Central American insurrection (Lake Street Extension), racism in sport (Cobb), crime and the media (Down the Road) and now AIDS. His appetite for moral complexity has never been more challenged, and his capacity to avoid settling for mere indignation has never been more welcome, than in Patient A, a fresh look at one of the few public...
...incident, a seven-page grievance signed by 12 workers that charged a supervisor with racism, sexism and anti-unionism was torn-up by the Union's then-Assistant Manager Katherine E. D'Andria, Childs said...
...reason for this apathy seems pretty clear--we just don't think there's that much to discuss. It happened, and it's another, terrible sign of intractable racism in a troubled, ignorant community. We simply aren't in a position to solve them...
...wonder they resent the residents of these Black neighborhoods. Though there is absolutely no excuse for racism, there is a cause--economic injustice and the real fear it breeds...
...symptoms will never end unless people in positions of power--or people like us, who will be--start to end these myths of academia, dispel elitist liberalism and turn back to reality. We have to realize both our complicity in the problem and our power to solve it. Racism isn't utterly incurable--it has real, definable causes which are themselves unjust and evil. By ignoring this fact we are committing injuries more grievous than those committed in South Boston, isolating ourselves from the reality we ourselves have created...