Word: racistly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just what is the nature of black American identity today? Historically, the defining characteristic has been any person born in America who is of African ancestry, however remote. This is the infamous one-drop rule, invented and imposed by white racists until the middle of the 20th century. As with so many other areas of ethno-racial relations, African Americans turned this racist doctrine to their own ends. What to racist whites was a stain of impurity became a badge of pride. More significantly, what for whites was a means of exclusion was transformed by blacks into a glorious principle...
...obviously a struggle to maintain his identity and fight against racism. A lot of people, when they ask me about the film, say, "Oh my god, I can't believe they didn't let him drink in that bar and they kept calling him 'Chief.' That's so racist." I tell people, hey, this is reality. I grew up in those conditions. When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: "Hey, Chief!" Even when I go to work now, people call me "Chief...
...said that their intent was not to insult Asians, but rather to mock the very stereotypes racism employs.But many on campus found the article offensive and 629 students have joined the Facebook group “Dear Daily Prince, This Isn’t Funny, It’s Racist.”Only a month before, Tufts had faced a similar reader reaction, as The Primary Source—Tufts’ conservative journal—published a parody of the song “O Come All Ye Faithful.” The Tufts’ editors said...
...Molly and then Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock (as canny a politician as ever lived), his personnel director Charles Miles and Ann Richards were leaning on the back wall of a popular watering hole during a typical Austin political shindig. A local county official from east Texas, "some old racist judge," as Molly called him, approached. Bullock, who had yet to swear off drinking, introduced the official "to my good friend Molly Ivins." The man was aghast, but he was taken aback further when Bullock introduced him next to his personnel director, Miles, an African American. Then Richards leaned forward, proffered...
Confederate Flag Prideful or racist? On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Senator Joseph Biden stirred up a long-standing debate when he said the flag should be removed from South Carolina's statehouse...