Word: racists
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...obtuse, little brat is a marvelous creation. These days, no child can be left behind. After all, these kids couldn’t possibly be stupid: They just have different learning styles. Quantifiable measures of intelligence like the SAT are falling out of fashion amid charges that they are racist, sexist, and don’t get little Johnny into Princeton...
...housing projects around her Toulouse home say they'll be voting for Le Pen - in large part to thwart Sarkozy's bid for the Elysée. "Sarkozy has stigmatized very specific populations as undesirable or violence prone, often with language many of us find more pointedly racist than Le Pen's ever was," she says...
...Munro, 92, activist and influential member of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, one of the first racially integrated unions, which fought for the rights of sharecroppers; in Laguna Beach, Calif. As the supervisor of the union's Memphis headquarters and later its education director, Munro attended risky meetings with racist plantation owners and police, edited a newspaper and mentored other women activists...
...Commodore Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama, the decision to remove the government of Laisenia Qarase in a coup on Dec. 5 was painful but simple. "The racist policies of the past," he says, sipping coffee in his office at the Republic of Fiji Military Force Strategic HQ in Suva, "would have taken us to hell-and we would never have come back." For many observers in the outside world, most vocally Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Bainimarama's actions were an unacceptable interference in the democratic process, but the armed forces chief and now interim Prime Minister is unrepentant. "If you want...
...racism, past and present, is the idea of the “backwardness” of non-white societies and civilizations. The “we were exploring the world and building castles while your people were still living in the jungle” mentality has fueled and justified racist endeavors such as slavery, colonization, and modern far-right propaganda...