Word: racists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem difficult to grasp, we give up and quickly place blame on the author for convoluted reasoning or poor writing, instead of redoubling our efforts to understand the argument or develop a more sophisticated critique. Rather than engage controversial authors, we are only too eager to brand them as racist, ignorant, sexist or enmeshed in the dominant culture--and we suffer because we ignore their insights...
...police shooting in New York City of Amadou Diallo, the mild-mannered African immigrant who was laid to rest in his native Guinea last week, many African Americans will agree with Johnnie Cochran that Diallo's death was yet another summary execution of an innocent black man by white racist cops. How else would you describe four members of an elite anticrime squad with a reputation for aggressiveness firing 41 shots at a skinny 22-year-old street merchant armed with nothing but a pager...
Besides fanning the flames of identity politics, Black History Month sometimes inspires the shrill whines of those who make a living out of being oppressed. For instance, one prominent civil rights advocate has noted that the choice of February, the shortest month, is indicative of a racist culture. Never mind that February was chosen by Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, because it includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln...
...lesson to be gleaned from Jasper, Texas, is not that a racist murderer, John William King, was convicted and sentenced to die on Thursday for the horrific dragging death of a black man behind a pickup truck. The lesson, says TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne, is that the community did not blow apart over the crime; it let the criminal justice system run its course...
...Diversity" is cool, and, best of all, diversity is safe--it doesn't bring up scary ideas like affirmative action, racist police, white privilege, economic inequality or even (at Harvard) a multicultural student center and ethnic studies. The kind of "diversity" the University encourages doesn't depend on small groups of people meeting and talking through real problems but rather on diversity brokers who urge the students to create brochure-friendly diversity...