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...need to acknowledge their part in creating the rift between them and the Black community. The IOP forum discussion was a small step in the right direction. But police must do more then talk. They must convince Blacks through professional behavior that they will no longer be treated as second-class students...
South Africa's whites had methodically segregated blacks, paid them a pittance, ignored their housing and barely pretended to educate them. Blacks were not second-class citizens but third or fourth class. Suddenly last week, by agreement, the whites stepped back and passed the government to that eager but ill-prepared majority. "I feel a sense of achievement," said De Klerk, the Afrikaner who made himself into the country's last white President. "My plan has been put into operation...
...Harvard likes researchers and if you're notdoing a lot of hard research and not publishing alot, they don't like it," Jeanne Smith Jacobs '76said. "I think she is a second-class citizen inthat department...
...letting more than a year go by without sending a U.S. ambassador to New Delhi (even now the expected choice, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Wisner, has not been formally named). Many Indians take the delay as a deliberate downgrading of their country, the world's largest democracy, to second-class status. Images matter a great deal in foreign capitals, where people draw powerful conclusions from what they see on CNN. Carnegie's Goble recalls the embarrassing case of the U.S.S. Harlan County, the ship carrying U.S. military construction experts to Haiti that turned back when faced with...
They will no doubt welcome the invitation, though with some skepticism. America has traditionally paid little attention to deaf people, so they are used to second-class treatment. It will take more than words to counter the fatalism expressed by Steven Collins, the current chairman of the National Coalition on HIV and the Deaf Community, as he surveys the current dilemma. "I'm sad but not shocked," he types on his TTY. "Deaf is a small community. Deaf is not important. Deaf people are dying because of that...