Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finding the "middle ground among extremes." "In America," says Kwan, "I am free to choose any definition oflife I please." Perhaps, but I certainly hope I am not free to act on any definition of life I please. A great many American citizens once held that people of darker skin tone were somehow less than human beings, and therefore to be enslaved or disposed of as those Americans saw fit; fortunately, such people were eventually prevented from acting on their particular definition of human life. I am not free to redefine life as excluding the old, the infirm...
...first attempts to mitigate the gravity of the charges raised against Texaco. He does not mention the Justice Department investigation which discovered evidence of racial discrimination in promotions. Texaco employees were frequently passed over for promotions simply because of their skin color. Black employees throughout the corporation were also allegedly subjected to harassment and intimidation, ranging from insulting slurs to having their tires slashed...
...parts of the psyche. Cose quotes anthropologist Ashley Montagu, who more than 50 years ago wrote, "'Race' is the witchcraft of our time. The means by which we exorcise demons." Modern biology takes a similar though less dramatic view. At the cellular level, characteristics such as head shape or skin pigmentation are considered superficial variations in the species. To a geneticist, color-coding Homo sapiens looks more like a cultural than a scientific imperative...
...problem with this approach to the racial situation on campus is that it tolerates the status quo and says that what is is the best that there can be. It claims as beneficial the tension experienced by minorities here because such thick skin is what it takes to make it in the real world. But a double standard of comfortability seems to be at work in this mean logic. Certainly WASPs have the need to feel comfortable on this campus, and no one faults them for retreating into their final club lairs. (I know, I know, you have a black...
Those of us with thick skin can even consider this prudential advice; one who does not actively market oneself may sell better than an aggressive go-getter. As tactics run, though, this is a bit questionable, best suited to those with truly powerful voices. For if you speak softly, you may need to market yourself simply to compete with all your loud-mouthed fellows...