Word: racisms
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Neil L. Rudenstine has good cause to be happy. His "Diversity and Learning" report, issued earlier this year, stamps Harvard as a firm supporter in the national debate over affirmative action. A deeply critical response in The Weekly Standard by government professor Harvey C. Mansfield draws accusations of racism and a protest from students. The president emerges as an enlightened defender of diversity in higher education, and Harvard's continued commitment to affirmative action is lauded by students and faculty. Something is very wrong with this picture...
...nation is still in that period of transition, observes Kenneth Clark, 81, the black sociologist upon whose work the Brown decision in part relied. "I didn't realize how deep racism was in America, and I suppose the court didn't realize it either," he says. Ten years after Brown, when only 2% of black children in the South attended schools with whites, the court announced, "The time for mere 'deliberate speed' has run out." In 1968 the court declared that discrimination must be "eliminated root and branch." In 1971, noting that about 40% of American schoolchildren routinely rode buses...
...difficult one for the group's three Yankees. At the university at that time, band members recall, whites would sometimes be kicked out of frats for having too many black friends. Hootie & the Blowfish's very first gig was held at an off-campus fraternity with a reputation for racism--and the interracial band was understandably wary. "We were a little concerned about going out there and playing," says Bryan. "So we brought our Marine buddies along...
...Unabomber, despite his threatening behavior, represents those who are completely fed up with American society and its problems, the ugliest of which are racism, sexism, homophobia and alienation. That's why the Unabomber was chosen to be the proponent of UNITE. Granted, not all of the groups backing UNITE support the use of that picture in posters and advertisements, but the fact that the picture was used suggests that the Unabomber represents something related to the mentality of the groups included in the alliance...
...even as a child, Brown learned to be comfortable in the white world. Unlike most blacks of his generation, he had little firsthand experience with white racism. He went to elementary school in midtown Manhattan, to high school in suburban White Plains and to college at Middlebury in Vermont, where he was the only black in his class--and, more tellingly, the first one in the local chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. His frat brothers liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route...