Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosperity, most people understood there was something rotten in Denmark. Whatever. Along with moderate politics went moderate will, moderate standards of conduct, moderate rage. The country might turn its head away from certain unpleasant, blatant facts, but it knew that it had done nothing about poverty, nothing about persistent racism, nothing for education, for its homeless or for its deserted children, rich and poor. Neither had it indicated that it would use its newly unrivaled power to keep mass murder down in the rest of the world...
...Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, written by Lewis Colick, purrs along like a TV movie with a grander budget. And like those fact-based disease-of-the-week dramas (the virus here is racism), this one is defeated by its lack of suspense. The case's outcome isn't the only thing that's predictable; so are the prejudices and motives of nearly every character...
White speaks for all the winners when he says, "The goal in my column and in other stories is to examine and expose some of the nonsense that Americans continue to believe about race. Generally, whites tend to downplay the extent of their racism--and blacks tend to overplay it. We could use a lot more openness and honesty...
Texaco oil company executives use racial terms [DIVIDING LINE, Nov. 25], and California has voted to end affirmative action. A new approach will have to be developed to end job discrimination and promote equal opportunity. I suggest that the victims of racism and sexism vote with their dollars. Those companies that do not hire and promote minorities and women at all job levels in a way that reflects their percentage of the population should be boycotted. Those companies that do not use the services and products of minorities and women should be boycotted. The American people can then decide whether...
...find it especially ironic that my first direct encounter with reverse racism occurred at Harvard. The minority students in Harvard Hall that night are not exactly battling to claim a stake in society. Much to their credit and due to their abilities, they are well on their way to becoming prosperous citizens. I wonder if there is a special program for white, Kansas farm boys who want to work on Wall Street but don't have the advantage of a Harvard diploma...