Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jacobson, who has only been diving since her sophomore year of high school but had 12 years of prior gymnastics experience, has had a pretty chaotic time of it over the last week. Jacobson, a slave to a grueling schedule that fuses competition, practice and homework, competed in the Phillips 66 Indoor National Diving Championships last Wednesday and Saturday...
...Louis Farrakhan, Madonna, Leonard Jeffries, David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Khalid Mohammed are all anti-Semitic. But others who 1) believe Americans Jews are too powerful, too successful or too influential 2) deny the Holocaust occurred or 3) accuse Jews of engagin in a disproportionate share of the Atlantic slave trade are also anti-Semitic. The report reminds me of a speech by Abba Eban in the 1950s, wherein he concluded his long list of anti-Semites by declaring that the whole world was anti-Semitic...
...that necessary for Black pride? Why is Holocaust denial an ingredient in terms of oppression [of Blacks]?" Foxman asked, referring to historians who have accused Jews of engaging in a disproportionate share of the Atlantic slave trade...
...practice of taking over its members' financial assets. One 35-year-old who has since left the group says that when he became a devout follower, he was required to surrender his passport to the group and donate all his cash and belongings. He also recounts working under near slave-labor conditions at a sect project on the southern island of Kyushu. "Their strategy is to wear you down and take control of your mind," he says. "They promise you heaven, but they make you live in hell...
...popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...