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Americans in foreign lands have always encountered the sort of foreigners who like to begin conversations by expressing their inability to understand something about America, as in "I've never understood why you Americans insist on running everything" or "I don't understand why so many Americans are racist, imperialistic thugs...
...hand, woe unto the individual who makes a negative judgement about a minority individual on basis of race. On the other, affirmative action, a system which makes race an important factor in judging an individual, is lauded as a social palliative, correcting racist American society. These are irreconcilable positions; one cannot back both a race-blind society and support racial preferences...
...recent publicity on affirmative action has really upset me. Not only is this a racist solution, but it is a detriment to those it "helps" and society as a whole. Affirmative action wants to correct past racism, sexism and other "isms" with new ones. Where does this end? Do we suppress white males until they need an affirmative action of their own? This type of correction sets one group back so the others can flourish, hurting everyone in the process...
Hughes criticized Justice Stephen Breyer, whoquestioned whether funding for racist art shouldalso be protected by the First Amendment...
...could accuse Yusef Komunyakaa, 50, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into...