Word: shaming
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...invisibility? Rustin, you see, was a proud and exuberant gay man. From adolescence on, he displayed an ease with his sexual orientation that was extremely rare at that time. He seemed to feel neither guilt nor shame. He had two very public relationships in his life (both with white men), and he came to see his struggle as a homosexual as inextricable from his struggle as a black man in America. But neither mainstream society nor even the civil rights leadership could cope with his honesty. In 1953, he was arrested for sexual activity in a car--a "morals charge...
...felt it was a shame that a world-class school like Harvard...isn’t a first-class or even a second-class [basketball] program,” said his son, Robert H. Lavietes ’71. “I like to think that the 10-5 record today has something to do with that facility...
...first step to redemption, Bush could deliver a speech acknowledging the G.O.P.'s addiction to race-baiting politics and making it clear that such tactics will no longer be tolerated. The Republicans have perhaps their best opportunity in 40 years to earn black support. It would be a shame if they blew...
...show-biz community's idea of reparation is, guess what, mere nostalgia. It revives not the centuries of slavery and abuse but a more recent era of liberal piety, when some suburban whites discovered race shame. It reminds the mass audience that 40 years ago black people were saints--not only for the atrocities they endured but also for the grace with which they bore them...
Alas, my joyful habit of coffee drinking has been tinged with the pang of shame I now feel when I stop at a café to indulge my addiction, with the knowledge that my purchase is not helping the poor starving coffee farmers of the world. The “Fair Trade” seal is rarely on the pot or bag that I buy, and at the crack of dawn when I’ve just awoken or have yet to sleep, my yen for a good brew is much stronger than my remorse for Guatemala...