Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of American history in which the brunt of racist hate and violence fell upon Black Americans. Bigotry and economic, cultural and social segregation still strike Blacks and Black communities with arguably the greatest severity of any of the American minorities; there can be no contesting that Black-white equality belongs at the top of priorities for all citizens...
...that Harvard admissions policies have amounted to discrimination against Asian-Americans, Glazer also said the pursuit of "balanced" admissions was a worthy pursuit. Harvard gives preference to athletes and children of alumni in its admissions, factors which it concedes lowered Asian-American admission rates to 80 percent that of white applicants during the 1980s...
...nearby Carpenter Center, staffmembers hung panels of blank black and white paperwhich "symbolized the unrealized potential ofartists that died with AIDS," said Cynthia Hadzi,exhibition coordinator at the center...
...shameful, but probably not all that surprising, that the Bush Administration has responded to Cristiani's blackmail with an indifference bordering on approval. Our government has obligations to defend arrested U.S. citizens abroad. But last week White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater announced: "There are clear indications of her involvement, that's for certain...It's fairly clear that those weapons were found there...
Angered, Boesman violently rips apart the shack he has built, just as the white men tore apart the couple's shanty on the day before. Then he is quiet, all energy spent. After a tense moment, Lena reaches out her hand to Boesman, takes her share of their belongings on her back and walks with him off stage...