Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simpson may have been a victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they had to do was replay in their minds the videotape of the savage beating administered four years earlier to an unemployed black construction worker named Rodney King. One whiff of the foul odor of institutional racism--and retired detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness, stank to high heaven--and a case that many had thought unshakable became unmakable...
...DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS The free-lance private eye's lot was never a happy one--ask Philip Marlowe. But he didn't have to fight racism while trying to fight crime. Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), a black man, does. And it grants Carl Franklin's cool, crisp adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel (set in classic noirland, '40s L.A.) the edge, weight and revitalizing relevance long needed by a genre often made limply nostalgic...
...going to get into a slugging match with these people," Johnson said of the allegations of racism within the Harvard police. "If these people have any concerns with this department, I welcome them to come in and discuss our police procedures...
...This fact is important because racism exists in many insidious sites, from the Police poster reinscribing the myth of the criminal black male to common dictionary representations of ethnicity (see also the illustrations for 'chopsticks,' 'turban' and 'mortarboard' if you are ready to be offended)," the letter said...
...letter continued: "For example, one of our members, a black male undergraduate, has been asked to show his ID card by fellow fearful students every time he has walked alone inside a freshman dorm this year. This is the quiet side of racism that the inexcusably ambiguously Police poster fosters...