Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tone and intimidating manner made mewonder if I was a prisoner, a boot camp recruit,or worse yet, a slave," Ugwuegbu wrote...
...here to sound a call for action and to put the Chinese government on notice," said State Sen. Lois G. Pines (D-Newton). "We are here to say that until the People's Republic stops using political prisoners as slave labor, no more favors for China's dictatorial government...
...advertent, and morally organized. People invent stories to explore their own behavior and to imagine their own possibilities. Few moments in America's moral life have surpassed the soliloquy, product of Mark Twain's imagination, in which Huck Finn agonizes over what to do about turning over the runaway slave Jim to the white authorities. Huck ends by accepting the consequences of his decision not to do so: "All right, then, I'll go to hell...
...this is Washington, D.C., and it's supposed to be different. Isn't that why Congress banned the slave trade in the District long before the Civil War--to make the country look good? But the race/geography/income line is so sharp and clear that naive (but increasingly cynical) liberals such as myself can't stand...
...trappings of African culture. Recently, a black lawyer in Washington refused a judge's order to remove a Kente cloth shawl while appearing in court because it might influence black members of the jury. Some of us, including one black member of Congress, have cast aside our "slave names" and adopted African ones. Many of us celebrate pseudo- African holidays like Kwanzaa, in addition to Christmas. Across the land, there is a push for "Afrocentric" education. Increasingly, we call ourselves African Americans, or even, like rap singer Sister Souljah, simply "Africans," dropping any connection to America from our definition...