Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also responded to charges of racism leveled against officers during Johnson's tenure by establishing training seminars and creating a new police advisory board that will include students who represent minority groups...
...country's sentiment), is that it takes an entire state to elect a senator and only a district to elect a Congressperson. Accordingly, the majority of black people in Congress come from predominantly black districts. The dearth of black people in the Senate does not necessarily demonstrate racism on the part of voters; it could also indicate an underrepresentation of blacks in the candidate pool. Of the four concerned groups, the only one that seems to have a lower representation than blacks in the Senate is homosexuals...
...same reason black representation in the House is not a good indicator of their representation in the Senate, the Senate is not a good indicator of Jewish representation in the presidency. The Jewish component in the Senate indicates instead that Americans have overcome more of their antiSemitism than their racism, but having eight states with Jewish senators by no means implies that America is ready to see a Jew in the Oval Office...
...event is co-sponsored by the United American Indians of New England and Community Change, "a multi-cultural, anti-racism organization located in Boston," according to James "Jim" K. Kilpatrick, a Community Change volunteer member and the event's coordinator...
...headquarters and anti-racism library have occupied a small space in downtown Boston for about 20 years now," Kilpatrick says...