Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Brenda A. Russell's recent editorial on the Emeka Ezera trial, she begins with the sentence, "It could have been a coutroom parody and people would have laughed to see such ignorance." From Emeka Ezera's viewpoint, "The trial was a rude awakening to the blatant racism inherent in the American judicial system." Yet after reading the evidence concerning the case, I am still puzzled by these two observations...
TODAY CENSORSHIP is not as blatant. But the Revolutionary Party's decree No. 42, which empowers the government to close down papers with no legal recourse, and the all-embracing Anti-Communist law, remain ominous threats. "With no pre-publication censorship, editors play a dangerous game," Yoon says. "You take a gamble every time you go to press. You go as close to the truth as you dare, but you never know when you'll be shut down for something that appears in the morning paper...
...trial represented a stripping of students from their cocoon of middle class isolation. The trial was a rude awakening to the blatant racism inherent in the American judicial system." Ezera said after he left the courtroom. He added that he was pleased with the student support...
Lastly, The Crimson's excuse that the choice of two Black men for a picture to accompany an article on prisons was a "mistake" was unacceptable. The Crimson obviously did not understand the severity of their "mistake." First of all, it is a blatant case of libel. Two innocent people were pictured as prison inmates with no explanation whatsoever. Secondly, we must ask why, in an article that did not deal with racial issues in prison, were two Black men picked to represent prison. Whether they admit or not, this choice is racist because, to The Crimson, the archetypal prisoner...
...Chanel advertisement for lipstick is a particularly blatant example of the publicity exploitative, sexist advertising practices that make profits by perpetuating sexually submissive images of women. Chanel, an international corporation, helps set standards for female perfection, nationally and internationally. The priority is global profit at the expense of an enlightened world attitude toward women. The public female ideal, which becomes internalized as private ideal as well, to be emulated is a sexually submissive one. The healthy development of women as individuals and the healthy development of society as a cooperative community of equals will continue to be stunted so long...