Word: redresses
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...skin color - white, black or "colored" [mulatto or descendants of slaves from the Dutch East Indies]. To address the iniquities of apartheid, the state decided it still needed to classify its citizens by race: The post-apartheid government instituted an affirmative action program called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) to redress the massive imbalance of economic power in favor of whites. BEE legislation relies for the most part on apartheid's definitions of "black." It is held to cover those excluded from power and privilege in the old order - African, Colored and Indian. But although they were also excluded, Chinese South...
...Fifty years later, with an enormous debt to the education activist, scores of Harvard graduates-to-be compete to teach in the poorest schools in America. For the past 40 years, the movement to redress inequalities in education has been Kozol’s movement, and the urgency felt by aspiring public school teachers largely originates in his compassionate indignation...
...pushed by an institutional mandate. It should be kept in mind that Harvard as an institution was not slaveholding, but that individuals connected to Harvard were. Harvard should not force or even pay researchers to launch a University investigation, because this is not an instance of institutional redress. Yet this type of investigation by students and their professors is laudable for its “bottom-up” approach. Beckert said, “We do have a responsibility to be examining our history completely. If there are parts that are less favorable...
...past week, the Clinton campaign has seized on Barack Obama’s suggestion that rural voters “cling” to religious fundamentalism and anti-statism because they have seen no real governmental redress for their economic woes, turning it into a blanket charge of elitism against Obama. Copping her lines almost directly from 30 years of Republican smear literature, Clinton assessed Obama’s rhetoric as out-of-touch with supposedly authentic heartland values. Her surrogates quickly jumped into line to help paint Obama in the political poison-cloud of liberal snobbery...
...That is a lot more than most electorates would stand for, but Zimbabweans had little redress. After the 1980 election that ended the white minority regime of Rhodesia and brought him to power, Mugabe created a kind of one-party democracy, in which elections and nominally independent state institutions were dominated by his Zanu-PF party, which beat opponents and rigged ballots, and where the organs of state, particularly the army and police, were loyal to the party rather than the people. Left with no means of redress as their homeland rotted, millions of Zimbabweans simply left the country...