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Though 1992 was supposed to be the Year of the Woman, it was not to be for former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro or for city comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman in New York. Repelled by a vicious campaign in which Holtzman accused Ferraro's husband of ties to organized crime and questionable business dealings, voters put up a man, state attorney general Robert Abrams, instead...
...term news coverage and the behavior of white men, oblivious to daylight or cameras or crows, in hot pursuit of innocent Black. The media also have some responsibility, it seems to me, for fostering attitudes that leave Whites all too ready to arrest and convict Black men accused of vicious crimes...
Such stereotypes, I submit, go a long way toward explaining how an all-white Simi Valley, Ca. jury could ignore what most believed to be incontrovertible evidence, and acquit white cops of the vicious beating of Rodney King...
Until quite recently, we have tended to explain away tyranny perpetrated by blacks against blacks across the continent, attributing it -- sometimes correctly -- to manipulation by former colonial powers or by Washington. Genocidal ethnic conflicts such as the vicious clan warfare now taking place in Somalia go largely ignored. Conversely, black Americans have directed enormous rage at the oppression of black Africans by white South Africans, for the good reason that it is the brutally undemocratic African society that most closely resembles...
...Every time George Bush conjures up the triumph of Desert Storm, a nasty fact bedevils him: the tyrant still holds vicious sway in Baghdad. There's no question the President would like to show Saddam that there are limits to his misbehavior, and last week he looked like he was about to teach him that lesson. First came a New York Times story that claimed Bush planned to provoke a confrontation over weapons inspections, a confrontation exquisitely timed to take place while the Republicans met in Houston. The idea was for a U.N. team in Baghdad to show...