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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League, has climbed high in his profession. But precisely the reasons for which he should feel self-respect, airtight reasons for a white man, raise confusing interior questions about his identity as a black man. Or so I surmise. Hence the anger. Ellis Cose wrote a book called The Rage of a Privileged Class about black executives and law partners who earn half a million dollars or more a year and feel sorry for themselves. My friend is a flashing electrical display of privileged rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MUSEUM OF SLAVERY? | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

Contrast the indifference that has greeted the long descent into autocracy by Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation with the outpouring of rage against apartheid in South Africa. Led by TransAfrica, a Washington-based lobbying group, the antiapartheid movement created extraordinary outside pressure that was a key weapon in toppling white supremacy. This was possible, says TransAfrica's leader, Randall Robinson, because South African oppression could be reduced to a simple black-and-white issue most Americans could understand. But when it comes to black-on-black oppression like Nigeria's, a kind of moral myopia sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN BLACKS PERSECUTE BLACKS | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...repeatedly speaking out against corruption and political repression both inside and outside Nigeria. He has joined the board of the Ford Foundation and served on Jimmy Carter's International Negotiations Network, which tries to resolve conflicts around the world peacefully. He seems to have driven Abacha into a rage by encouraging TransAfrica's pro-democracy campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN BLACKS PERSECUTE BLACKS | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...written document, but it also limits the freedom of judges to import their own philosophies into constitutional law and allows the Legislative and Executive branches to make the policy calls. White calls Thomas' conclusions in the recent desegregation and affirmative-action cases the result of "twisted reasoning and bilious rage." Anyone who knows the Justice and his optimistic outlook, his ready smile and laugh and his gregarious and vivacious personality recognized this as nonsense. Moreover, it cannot be a mere coincidence that the court gradually has moved toward Thomas' positions on affirmative action, voting rights, school desegregation and the separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1995 | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...Union, South Carolina, a town that last October earned its own pin on the map of American crime, the rage at Susan Smith's actions has gradually given way to more complex emotions. People are still appalled by the way she let her Mazda slide off a boat ramp into the waters of John D. Long Lake with her young sons Michael and Alex strapped into their car seats. They are still outraged at the ease with which she convinced the world that she was the grieving victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX, BETRAYAL AND MURDER | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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