Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nicholson, a member who is white, recalls, "You wouldn't have believed how bad it was. The blacks were so angry, and the whites didn't know what to do. But we've come a long way since then." "It's changed people," says Wade. "There is still subtle racism here. When a white person and a black person enter a store at the same time, usually the white person is served first. That sort of stuff goes on." But, she says, "Jasper is going to be much better because of what happened...
...have to keep fighting the same debilitating battles over and over. Every time an outrage like the Diallo shooting occurs, many whites treat it like a tragic exception in an otherwise fair and just system, rather than as a symptom of chronic racial injustice. Raise a fuss about continuing racism and you're accused of exaggerating or imagining things...
...When we [seniors] see each other we talk about two things: what we're doing next year or our thesis," says Jobe G. Danganan '99, a social studies concentrator writing a thesis on Christianity, racism and racial reconciliation of the African-American experience from the 1960s to the 1990s. "We call it the T-word or the T-bird...
...When we [seniors] see each other we talk about two things: What we're doing next year or our thesis," say Jobe G. Danganna '99, a social studies concentrator writing a thesis on Christianity, racism and racial reconciliation of the African-American experience from the 1960s to the 1990s. "We call it the T-word or the T-bird...
Liebert does not note that racism, an ideology that views minority groups as culturally and/or biologically inferior, is also a social construction. At their core, Black History Month and Kwanzaa are simply cultural constructions drafted to fight against racism, the most irrational construct of all. They cannot be considered outside of that context. JASON B. PHILLIPS '99 March 1, 1999 The writer is vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association...