Word: racists
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...there?s any doubt, remember the eyewitness account of Jason Bissey who lives next door to the house where the Duke party occurred: "One guy yelled at her, ?... Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt?" - a cleverly subtle racist jab from one of America?s best-educated college students...
...does the university - and not just about the events of March 13, when the men's lacrosse team held a party that included underage drinking, black strippers were hired to dance before white males, and racist remarks were shouted into the night. University President Richard Brodhead has created five independent committees to look at broader issues that the scandal uncovered, and one of them will examine the lacrosse program. A search for the coach's replacement has not begun and will not begin until after the committee finishes its study and offers its recommendation. But even then, there...
...white, privileged team members and the elitist university they represent. Never have I heard a Duke student utter, “Well, she is a stripper.” Blaming the victim and using her occupation to destroy her credibility cannot be condoned. But typecasting 46 individuals as unsurprisingly racist rapists and juxtaposing them with a diligent student, single mother of two? Not an unrelated evil. JANE CHONG Durham, N.C. April 12, 2006 The writer is a freshman at Duke University...
...dredged up old demons of nativism. The Arab world is moving toward democracy, and yet Arab men seem to have eclipsed black men as Public Enemy No. 1. Even the racial aspects of the Hurricane Katrina disaster are quite subtle. President Bush's performance was not so much racist as it was amazingly lame. Which isn?t to say race wasn?t a factor - it?s easy to be tone-deaf toward people who don?t vote...
...Somewhere between Al Sharpton and David Horowitz, the racial debate (like much of the political debate) became spectacle. Black.White. revels in a racist fantasy, one that asserts that the only important thing to be said about one?s ethnicity are the problems it generates for others. Seemingly every little tick and personal eccentricity is blamed on the characters' race. To which I respond with Chris Rock?s famous line: Whatever happened to crazy...