Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bobo said many people "have a sense that talking about racism is pessimism," but the subject still needs to be addressed with legislation...
...took political courage for President Clinton to initiate a national dialogue on race and to appoint an advisory panel to keep us all focused on the subject. If there is short-term gain in this for any politician, it is hard to discern. Whatever Clinton's motives, having started down this road, it is now imperative to get it done right...
...increasingly globalized, high technology economy, much facilitated by laissez-faire social policy, drive down their wages and standard of living. Nonetheless, research involving carefully designed audits (i.e., matched pairs of job applicants), as well as systematic surveys and in-depth interviews of low-skill employers speak loudly on the subject of race: direct racial bias against African-Americans exists today. Continued race bias in the labor market and residential segregation help account for why a far larger fraction of the black poor as compared to the white poor, have incomes at 50 percent or less of the official poverty line...
...nation needs to look at some cold, unpleasant truths about its past, but also about its present circumstances if we are to have a twenty-first century free of racism. In order for that to happen, however, President Clinton and his advisers will have to speak candidly on a subject where the most politically palatable or ideologically safe ideas usually trump even the most obvious social facts. Noble intentions and great initiatives notwithstanding, I fear that the depth of the mendacity of the dominant discourse on race may yet preclude this from happening...
...understandable, however, that many Jews (including myself) feel this sense of self-hatred. Despite the claims of many Jews and non-Jews that there is very little anti-Semitism in America, Jews and religious Jews in particular are still subject to prejudice and misrepresentation on a daily basis. The persistence of negative attitudes toward religious Jews makes it very difficult for us Jews to take ourselves and our traditions seriously. JOEL B. POLLAK...