Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...their letter to The Crimson (Jan. 10), H.W. Jerome Maddox and Valarie Allen use the current Stuart murder case as a condemnation of American society, which they feel was all too eager to accept Charles Stuart's story. "Had the killer been African-American," they state, "we fear white society would have sanctioned an equally odorous [sic] crime..." It is Maddox and Allen who fulfill their own dismal prophecy...
Charles Stuart knew this. By playing on the latent fear of "Black violence," Stuart almost escaped blame for the murder of his wife and soon-expected child. Stuart guessed correctly that the majority of white society would accept the fact that a Black man killed an innocent white woman without question. More than that, he knew that the majority of whites would be so intent on immediate retribution that they wouldn't closely investigate his story...
...National Urban League published this passage in its 1989 report on the state of black America: "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African- American community. Though difficult to accept, that is the concept of genocide...
Like the lowly garbage barge that no nation would accept, the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy last week was sailing off Pensacola, Fla., 1,500 miles short of its original destination: the coast of Colombia, where it was assigned to detect drug-running planes and boats. News leaks that the Kennedy and an accompanying task force were heading for South America triggered an outcry from Latins already upset about the U.S. invasion of Panama. After George Bush telephoned Colombian President Virgilio Barco to apologize for the "misunderstanding," the Kennedy's picket duty was aborted...
...fears unity with West Germany, though not close relations. "Keep the Wall," she says. "If they make some problems, we can close the border. We hear there are neofascists in West Germany. We know this from their own news. We have no fascism, and people here will never accept...