Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the sacred institution of marriage. The obverse, of course, is the black woman who presumes to move into the American mainstream. That woman is not successful. She is uppity...
...wasn't always so. The U.S. Constitution leaves voting rules up to states and cities, and from 1776 to 1926, 40 states and territories allowed noncitizens to vote in local and even federal elections, according to Ron Hayduk, a co-founder of the Immigrant Voting Project. Anti-immigrant sentiment put an end to that, and the aftermath of World War I created a mistrust of foreigners that led all states to make voting the sole privilege of U.S. citizens...
...Roller seems resigned to the infeasibility of receiving grant money from the University. “I know that we’ve made the College aware of our financial difficulties, but there’s not much that they can do,” he says. This sentiment is not far removed from Plant’s reluctance to ask the Student Activities Office for guidance, and it might be true that Harvard students are simply too independent for their own good. But the administration is hardly ready to change its policies to ensure that the Mock Trial Team...
Ryan S. Nolan ’09 expressed a similar sentiment...
...He’s a fastball-changeup guy, and they just drove him the other way over and over again,” he said. “Our hitters did a great job against a very good pitcher.” Harvard coach Joe Walsh echoed the sentiment. “I’m really pleased that we knocked Staehely out,” Walsh said. “He’s the kid that ended our season last year. I thought we were really patient, and we were taking pitches, getting deep in the count...