Word: racists
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...Crimson would view the situation differently if another category, perhaps race or religion, were the object of the military’s discrimination. I doubt they would still argue that the possible loss of federal funding would outweigh the prospect of a racist or anti-Semitic employer...
...hard-working parents live up to their roles as model minorities, but he doesn't want to play the part of the meek Asian kid. We see a teacher congratulating the narrator for receiving the highest marks in class, but we know the boy has just beaten up a racist classmate with a ruler. Ultimately, though, that hotel bell is inescapable, and when a health catastrophe strikes his father and destroys their finances, his family is left with nothing but the ashes of the American dream. Though Lin ends his searing book on a hopeful note, Waylaid is like...
...Jackson is convinced that his recent poor album sales are due to a racist recording industry that underpromotes black artists. Why then are the likes of P. Diddy, Missy Elliott, Destiny's Child and other black musicians among the richest and most successful artists in the world? Why then have the vocabulary, style and influence of black music been embraced in nearly every corner of the globe? Jackson needs to look a little closer to home to understand why fewer people are buying his recordings. Pen some decent tunes, and they will be bought. MARK KING London...
Beyond exorbitant rent and a scarcity of affordable housing, former Cabrini tenants complain that the path to building a new life away from the projects is blocked by the same obstacles that helped keep them there in the first place: bad credit; a sagging job market; hostile, sometimes racist landlords; and neighborhoods that reject or make life uncomfortable for the incoming poor. "It's tough dealing with landlords when they know you have a voucher," says Berryman. "They treat you different when they know you're coming from the projects." Many of those landlords, she says, harbored misguided suspicions that...
DIED. WILLIAM PIERCE, 68, leading white supremacist ideologue best known for his 1978 racist novel The Turner Diaries, which imagines the violent overthrow of the Federal Government and was found among the possessions of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh; of cancer; in Hillsboro, W.Va. Alarmed by the civil rights movement, the ex-physics professor co-founded the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi group in the country...