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...after all, Fresh Pond isn’t known to be the most tolerant place towards preppy kids like us. We certainly wouldn’t feel comfortable wearing khakis and pink polos, but what about the exact opposite? At one point I had to ask: were we being racist? At the end of the weekend I have to admit that I still don’t know. As with all issues concerning race or religion, the line that divides the acceptably humorous from the inappropriately taboo becomes fuzzier as you try to look at it more closely. The fact...
...many cases surpassed—those of their American counterparts. Part of the reason that the riots were so difficult for many to comprehend here is that they cut against so many ingrained prejudices and preconceptions about America and Europe. We, and not the Europeans, are supposed to be racist, stagnant, and repressive. We are the ones who supposedly shunt away our unwanted and care only for certain types of citizens. We are the ones that segregated the races. Most of all we, and not our enlightened European brethren, are the violent and the crude. Reality, however, even long-suppressed...
...WILLIAMS V. PRICE (2003) Alito's decision overturned a lower-court ruling that denied a new hearing for Ronald Williams, a defendant convicted of first-degree murder, even after a juror was overheard making a racist remark immediately after the trial. Alito reasoned that the comment, made outside the jury room, had not been justifiably excluded from consideration by the lower court. Alito's opinion granted Williams the right to argue that his imprisonment had been unlawful...
...example, who came to France from Algeria to live, work and build a better life, accepted the role of guest. They did all they could not just to fit in but to become invisible. Calling attention to themselves usually meant trouble--endless ID and visa checks from police, racist remarks and insults--so they avoided that. They tried as much as possible to integrate, and in doing so shut away their customs, language and heritage...
...stances. Overturning a district court decision in Saxe v. State College Area School District, Alito boldly defended the students’ first amendment rights in non-school-sponsored speech. In Williams v. Price, he granted a writ of habeas corpus to a black prisoner when a juror made a racist remark after the trial, which emphasized the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. Alito also authored a unanimous decision in Police v. City of Newark, ruling against a law that require police officers to shave their beards, because such laws violate officers’ civil liberties...