Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST January, a similar controversy brewed at CBS Sports when commentator "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder spoke to a reporter about Blacks in professional sports. During the interview Snyder said that many a slave owner used to "breed his big Black to his big woman so that they could have a big Black kid." Here was another case of a public figure making an offensive remark that contained some truth--truth that was forgotten in the angry responses that followed...
Students and administrators are up in arms at the University of Wisconsin after a "slave auction" fundraiser at one of the school's fraternities...
...think [the slave auction] was wrong, definitely wrong; they had no right to do that," said junior James L. Bourne, who said the frat should be "kicked off campus for good...
...first half of the novel, in fact, centers on Eva's moving from job to job in an upwardly mobile search for a normal employer who will treat her humanely. Initially a slave to the minister of the interior, who requires her to shave him every morning while he sits on his velvet-covered toilet, Eva moves to the home of a Yugoslavian potter. She teaches her the secret of creating images out of Universal Matter--a conglomeration of bread dough, dental cement and magic...
...also found a means of reaching out to other neglected groups. After entering to the strains of Neil Diamond's Coming to America, Dukakis told the convention that whether one came in a slave galley or an immigrant ship, we are all in the same boat together...