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...Angeles, commentators predicted the death of the Olympics as a form: too political, too nationalistic. The Los Angeles crowds were often rudely nationalistic. But the Games transcended that partisanship. Part of the charm of an Olympics is that we are for those days represented by bright, eager, muscular youth, intensely alive. They become us, they embody us. Their acts become ours. From this identification flows a sense of pride and possibility and renewal...
...chauvinists are admitting that the chronic battles-economic, racial, political-may be getting out of hand. Last week the city's school system, third largest in the U.S. with 430,000 students, was shut down by a teachers' strike, the second in two years. Black and Hispanic youth gangs have kept up their amazing homicidal pace, killing six people in the two weeks since the offhand murder of Ben Wilson, a local high school basketball superstar, shocked and disturbed the city. Groups of white thugs have been attacking the homes of black and Hispanic families who dared...
...first Indian lawyer for the state of South Dakota This, however, is not the case. Michael P. Tsosie and I expressly told Caron that we are a fortunate few who have had the economic and educational opportunities to bring us to Harvard. The majority of Native American youth have not been fortunate enough to receive these opportunities due in part to enforced racial stereotypes. Caron obviously chose not to mention this...
...unequal, facilities--the two sets of water fountains and public restrooms--but they laid racist foundations in my young mind ones which, like all whites in this society. I have not yet fully eradicated. Hearing Dr. King on those two occasions did more than any other event of my youth to aid in that eradication...
Another very good ex-Yardling agrees. "Right now it's hard to be a freshman," says senior Co-Captain Joe Carrabino, who was an Ivy League Rookie of the Year in his youth...