Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was the apparent end of ideology as the two main political parties settled on common and largely commonsensical ground. With all such monumental successes, people may have looked around for failures and things to fix. Toward the end of the year, the President hit on the topic of racism, but there seemed to be little desire to tackle an issue by "dialogue" that might better be solved with jobs and education...
Eugenie A. Lang '00, board member of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, said, "It's true that this rings of a tradition of a time that had these problems," refering to allegations that using Latin would promote classism, elitism and racism...
...shaky ground. The NAACP fails to point out that 48 percent of the Texan prison population is black. In general, in certain parts of the United States, some groups sadly constitute a much higher proportion of the criminal population than of the general one. If we assert the inherent racism of capital punishment, we have to declare incarceration to be racist; indeed, we must indict our justice system as a whole...
...throat until another black classmate said DeBlasio was "cool" and should be left alone. Still, DeBlasio, who says his best friend is black, believes there has been progress. "When my father was growing up in Brooklyn, I don't think he had a single black friend," he says. "[Racism] still exists, but it isn't as blatant as it used...
Bias crimes, however, one of the most obvious expressions of racism, are still a fact of teen life. According to Justice Department statistics, the number of hate crimes reported nationwide rose 10% from 1995 to 1996 (the jump could be due to better reporting). In Chicago black youngster Lenard Clark, 13, was beaten into a coma in March, allegedly by a group of white teens. "This is not about race," argues Tommy, 23, a white resident of Bridgeport, the neighborhood where Clark's beating took place. "A lot of times it's about territory. If we fight with black guys...