Word: racists
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...show began with the instrumental, “Arko,” and included stripped down renditions of the entire fourteen-song album Clone, with a one-song encore, “That’s So Racist!” There were difficulties for the pair in transitions and in achieving the complicated structure of their tunes live. Often in the earlier songs, especially “Same Left-Foot Freckle” Gordon’s voice was out of harmony with Kottke’s deep tremolo. Kottke appeared to get lost three times in his playing...
...programs, and issues,” “[t]he frequent misspelling of minority student names” and in “[t]he application of stereotypes to manipulate the perception of minorities.” In many ways, the subtleties are more harmful than any blatantly racist remark because their nature cannot be proven with the hard facts that society has come require as a prerequisite for action...
...criminalization of marijuana. "Most of the police officers I hired during the 15 years I was police chief had tried it," says McNamara. Like many pot legalizers, he believes the system, which he says arrests more people for marijuana than for any other drug, is racist. "Ninety million Americans have tried marijuana. When you look at who's going to jail, it is overwhelmingly disproportionate--it's Latinos and blacks." Not surprisingly, the topic is radioactive in the police profession. Andy Anderson, who was head of his state's largest cop organization, the Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs, announced...
Let’s not forget what European-American cooperation has accomplished since World War II. Together, Europeans and Americans have faced down Communism when the Soviets were threatening to “bury” us; we dismantled the racist apartheid regime in South Africa and turned that country into a model of democracy; we’ve moved the Balkans out of its long nightmare of ethnic cleansing and unremitting violence to a new dawn of peaceful coexistence and prosperity; now we’re working together to build an accountable government in Afghanistan that will reintegrate...
...course, it is sad that major universities where hundreds if not thousands of black students attend school have not broken out of a racist, mid-century mindset. It is sadder yet that the BCA has to resort to such pressure to get schools to change their ways, when it is usually the other way around—universities changing society...