Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the White House joined with congressional Democrats to give a raise to those at the bottom of the scale. Starting next April, the lowest- paid workers will receive $3.80 an hour, to be followed by a raise to $4.25 a year later. That represents a concession by the President, who wanted the increase phased in over three years. But congressional Democrats also gave ground by agreeing to an idea they had fiercely resisted in the past, a so- called training wage for teenage workers. The training wage, which can be paid to a worker only during his first...
...last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
...with Willis Edwards, president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. When Hall's show began, Edwards complained publicly about the scarcity of blacks in key behind-the-scenes positions. (Hall's producer and director, as well as the vice president of his production company, are all white women.) According to Hall, after making the statements Edwards asked for a $40,000 contribution to his organization, a request that Hall told a reporter "sounds like extortion to me." Edwards denied asking for money and slapped Hall with a $10 million slander suit...
...press's fixation on race nettles Hall even more. Though he takes pride in giving exposure to many black performers ("I have a commitment to correcting the wrongs of TV history"), Hall insists he is doing a show for everybody, black and white. "I'm out to bring the ghetto to the suburbs and the suburbs to the ghetto. I want ((rapper)) Tone-Loc and Major Ferguson, Fergie's dad, on the same couch. Most white people have never been to a party at a black person's house. I hope they say, 'This one looks nice -- maybe...
...wonder Hall sometimes feels besieged. "My manager told me not to be angry, but I am," he says. "I give 110%. I resent the fact that ((for some white critics)) I have to be whiter to be a star. And then there are the jabs from my own people, the implication that I have to be unfair to whites to make + blacks happy. I am angry. I'm on a tightrope, and people are punching me from every direction...