Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question the existence of racism. Yet many Americans of color do extraordinarily well. I do not, in addition, question affirmative action in principle--if it aims at giving all those of socio-economically deprived, underprivileged, or educationally less rigorous backgrounds the equal opportunity to succeed. That goes for poor African-Americans from Watts or Brownsville; but it should also apply to destitute whites from bankrupt mining communties in rural West Virginia; Vietnamese boat people; inner-city Koreans; Chinese political refugees and any other group whose social and economic backgrounds deprive them of the same opportunities as the sons and daughters...
Whenever I encounter debates on affirmative action, as I did on Nov. 3, I always ask myself the same question: why doesn't anyone discuss the minorities who are doing very well without it? Certainly there exists racism against Asians, probably of as strong a variety as any prejudice toward Hispanics or Native Americans (two minority groups who, with African-Americans, benefit most often from affirmative-action policies). Many Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America from societies just as violent, environments just as depressed, as any Hispanic or African-American does. Surely, it is harder to learn English...
Cataloging about 150 live-links, Gold- man's page is a bistro of hate. Users choosing to view hate by category are presented with nine categories: white supremacy, neo-Nazism, black racism, anti-Semitism, anti-gay, anti-Christian, anti-Arab, Christian identity and Holocaust denial...
...large it is a cloak for anti-Semitism," he says. "The far right by and large has taken great pains to strip away explicit racism and couch arguments in pseudo-academic terms. They don't talk much about satanic Jewish bankers running the world but that is the subtext...
...while Hatewatch lists Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam site under the category of black racism, Potok says Klanwatch has not listed the organization, though it does monitor...