Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of undergraduates has claimed responsibility for altering a Harvard University Police Department poster of a burglary suspect, saying that they did so to protest racism...
...parody is acute, effective and intellectually substantial, despite its debut on a page other than this one. Through wholesale condemnation of Unofficial Political Satire, the staff nicely circumscribes the forged wanted poster's intended message: unjustified racism within the Harvard University Police Department. Rather than dismiss such powerful speech, we should acknowledge a trend so seldom detailed on the leaves of Official Student Thought...
Fort Bragg's racial problems--and those of the armed forces in general--go beyond this recent incident. Though the Army today is nearly 30% black, overt racism still takes place at some bases, according to a report issued by the House Armed Services Committee last December. Fort Bragg itself has been linked to other violent outbursts. In October an Army sergeant opened fire on colleagues, killing one and injuring 18. In August 1993 a soldier from the post killed four people in a local restaurant. And in 1991 Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in last April's bombing...
...message has been repeatedly circulated by students who forwarded it in order to increase awareness of racism and to urge other angry students to respond. It has been widely recirculated within the last month at colleges including Harvard, Stanford, Bryn Mawr and Tulane...
...theme of this year's Annual Action Week is "Roots of Violence." And while the themes of EAA's postering campaign--homosexuality, racism, sexism, and classism--are not the foci for Annual Action week, they are issues that are intertwined and contribute to prejudice and social injustice, EAA leaders said. Other issues addressed during the week will be hate crimes, and domestic, economic and youth violence...