Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent work titled The End of Racism, author Dinesh D'Souza went so far as to declare that discrimination has disappeared entirely in this country. Conservatives dismiss the wage gap by observing that equal employment opportunity need not yield equal monetary results. But their simple explanation is also inaccurate...
...reality, there are rays of hope. The obvious solution is to assist inner-city blacks via school desegregation and relocation of families into the suburbs. Such a court-ordered program in Chicago was directly credited for increased employment, wages and school performance of participants. But given America's latent racism, the long-term viability of any dispersal program is doubtful...
...interesting but not wholly plausible twist, despite Earl's "white" identity and Southern roots, it is actually he who shakes off his prejudices most easily. Beneath Earl's expressionless facade, he harbors no real racism and sincerely wants to get to know this brother he has never known. Ray's conversion is the true struggle: though outwardly courteous, he holds on to his resentment and his hatred to the very end. An undercurrent of tension therefore remains up to the day of Earl's departure, when Aunt T. shares a secret with them both that dissolves the final barrier between...
This racist message is evidence that hateful attitudes can still thrive here. Although Harvard is often characterized as America's premier institution of higher learning, it is not immune from the anti-intellectual forces of prejudice and racism...
Carter tries to extricate himself from the swamps of moral relativism by postulating that some ideas are, after all, just plain evil, and as examples of such genuine, integrity-destroying evil, he offers racism and genocide. Thus the Nazi operative couldn't be a man of integrity, no matter how much "discerning" he engages in, because genocide is just, well, over the top. But evil, in Integrity, seems a pretty makeshift deus ex machina. If, for example, racism is such a self-evident no-no, then why not sexism--including any attempt to restrict women's reproductive choices...