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...Loury says, leads to “racial differences in the acquisition of productive skills” that thwart African-Americans before they even enter areas of public life where racial discrimination is illegal. Add this to the material disadvantages, like the wealth gap, that black families suffer because of the historical fact of slavery and, as Carter puts it, “We [African-Americans] are still playing catch...
...morally wrong, and using an abortion as a cop out to avoid the natural consequence of sex—namely pregnancy—is no different from passing the blame on to your sister for breaking your mother’s favorite lamp. In other words, let the fetus suffer the consequences for your mistake—so long as you don’t have to face the shame that is appropriate for your lack of self-control. That is to what it boils down in the end. A woman does have a choice. She has the right...
...dates will judge us whether or not we choose to take part in tomorrow’s charade, and defiance is a dangerous gamble. For those of you with the chutzpah to stay the course and risk life and love, you are truly admirable. You will suffer heavy casualties, but the overthrow of an undemocratic institution is certainly a noble cause...
...Democrats are staying silent for the moment on the domestic programs Bush would cut in next year's budget. Job training, agriculture and highway construction get big slices, for example. But voters so far acknowledge, at least theoretically, that pet projects will have to suffer for war effort. For the moment, Democrats believe they can draw blood by focusing on Bush's raid of the surpluses in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. The budget he released last week projects that $1.73 trillion will have to be diverted from the two trust funds to pay for tax cuts...
...consider success, achievement or promise to find that ember of racial, social or religious anger and resentment," Jacquard says. In cases like Cherifi's, he adds, that ember is often a lingering fury at the racial and economic prejudices that French Arabs and their families feel they suffer in French society. Ironically, that anger can be fanned into flame by their own success in climbing up the socioeconomic ladder...