Word: second-class
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Still, some believe race relations in Britain are not as bad as they are on the Continent. "There, blacks are seen as second-class citizens with few rights or none at all," says Bernie Grant, one of four black Labour Members of Parliament. "In Britain, most black people are citizens." And they can muster some political weight. More than 500 elected members of local city and town councils are black. Nevertheless, the tabloids keep whipping up their working-class readers with improbable tales of immigrants living in luxury at taxpayer expense. In fact, says David Dibosa of the Greater London...
...African-American life. The top black stars of the '80s, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, were segregated from many hero roles because they were seen only as inspired clowns. In buddy movies with white co- stars, they rarely got the girl -- any girl. They were Hollywood's best- paid second-class citizens...
...book is that Jews should employ more chutzpah when it comes to standing up against anti-Semitism. ("Chutzpah" is an untranslatable Yiddish term describing qualities of assertiveness, demandingness and gall.) Dershowitz argues that Jews have too long allowed themselves to be trodden upon--to be treated as second-class citizens--because they are too concerned about making a favorable impression on their Gentile "hosts...
...range of services severely constrained by funding limitations. "A double standard of medical care is now not only legal," argues Sanger, "but mandatory in this country." Wattleton asserts that the congressional intent behind Title X was to "help needy women, not victimize them by subjecting them to second-class health care...
Centuries of foreign domination have left Arabs with a sense of violation, of second-class status. When communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the feeling of vulnerability deepened. Arabs found themselves without strategic allies to help them counter Israel's -- and, by extension, America's -- power. George Bush's new world order did not seem to promise much for the Arabs, who militarily remain weaker than Israel. Saddam's answer -- standing up to the world's only superpower -- thus struck a chord within the Arab psyche...