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Salerno and the garage owners, who apparently faced rising disgruntlement from the underclass they had created, reached a new contract in 1989 that began to treat all workers as union members. But there was a major catch: the new contract designated two classes of employees, "A" workers and "B" workers. The lower class consisted of those who had made no recorded contributions to the local's health and pension plans during the previous three years. They could now legally be paid just $6 an hour, or $240 a week, about half the amount that "A" workers received. In essence, says...
Today anyone in Michigan who wants to buy a handgun must take a 10-item true-or-false test, responding to such propositions as "You should treat every pistol as if it were loaded" and "You should always keep the barrel of a pistol pointed in a safe direction." Just in case the questions are too tough, the answers are all "true" and are printed on the back...
...defense of affirmative action, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in 1978: "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race . . . And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." In the current racial climate, one can only conclude that taking account of race, even in a supposedly ameliorative way, does not guarantee the ability to get beyond race. The only question is how we choose to deal with it. Do we do so by applying outwardly unbiased policies that ultimately rely on the judgment and goodwill of those who assume minorities...
...Lemann's chronicle of the black migration, is back in Clarksdale, living in a retirement community. He spent 38 years in Chicago, an additional six in Flint, Mich. The stories of change lured him home. "There are black people working in the banks and stores now," he says. "They treat you now like a human being. It is wonderful. My prayers have been answered." So little asked, so little yet received...
...churches for years have also been under increasing scholarly pressure to treat traditional understandings of Scripture as cultural expressions, subject to change, rather than as God's eternal strictures. Another important factor is the intellectual influence of feminist groups that see traditional Judeo- Christian morality as an expression of patriarchy. In addition, a trend has been emerging in modern moral theology to base judgments concerning sexuality not on absolute rules but on the relative value of each relationship. This approach was promoted as early as 1966 by Episcopal theologian Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics: The New Morality. Among the denominations...