Word: whiteness
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...have known personally great people, specifically historian John Hope Franklin, federal appellate court judge Damon Keith, and Howard University law professor Patricia Worthy, to have experienced insult at the very height of their careers. The insidious nature of racial presumption is that the offending white person is often unaware of his or her insulting actions and has no deliberate intention to commit a racist act. For Franklin and Keith, the humiliating incidents were not police-related, but they were unfortunately all too common experiences for many black people. Nor have successful black persons been immune from police arrest or harassment...
...apology for what he did," Gates told a Boston television reporter Tuesday night. "He should look into his heart and know that he is not telling the truth and he should beg my forgiveness." Gates has raised the possibility of filing a lawsuit over the arrest.Obama, speaking at a White House press conference aimed at boosting support for health care reform, said that the Cambridge Police Department "acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home" and noted that racial profiling remained a fact in American society. Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick...
...impression that the monument actually suffered from being converted back into a church after Christian monarchs finally conquered Cordoba. The Renaissance cathedral added inside the Mezquita after its conversion would be fairly standard if it stood alone, but it seems wildly out of place amidst the elegant red and white Islamic arches...
UPDATE—From White House spokesman Robert Gibbs...
...engaging our peers from other fields yields a more holistic and beneficial result in the real world than simply focusing on one area. It is for this reason that when our states, and our country, changes the way we provide healthcare, we must consider the people beyond those wearing white coats. Whether we move towards a single payer system, more socialized physician groups, or a different iteration of systems already in practice across other developed nations, we cannot leave citizens of the lower class with pills and no plan. We must provide ample support to human and social services...