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...people in power use Third World people as a reserve labor force to depress wages, increase profits and maintain the status quo. They need a set of "objective" values which justify oppressive practices. This is the basis for institutional racism. Institutional racism in this society can take two forms: The first kind is the more obvious and thus more easily combatted, as in Jim Crow laws, immigration quotas, and grandfather clauses. The second, and more insidious kind, is contained in the institutions and social practices which are not inherently racist, but are racist in their effect. There are infinite examples...
...compare my department's political-cultural spectrum to the world's, it by no means reflects the diversity of traditions and ideologies," he says, adding that he sees no effort in Economics to encourage diversified viewpoints by hiring faculty with perspectives that differ from the status quo. Although he beleives instances of conscious discrimination are rare, "People will evaluate the tenure candidates' work thinking in good conscience that they're doing it on an objective basis, and if they find the candidate's questions, methods, and answers very different from their own, they conclude that there's nothing in this...
...experience of attending Columbia University as a graduate student last year, I can only say that these radicals, when it gets to the "nitty-gritty," use Marxist rhetoric to defend the business establishment. Their real motivation is a kind of disguised and aggressive defense of the president status quo. They thrive on injustice, because it gives them the only power they will ever know. Jerome Minot...
JIMMY CARTER CAME to the presidency offering a promise--and little else. He said he was an outsider, unsullied by Washington's tarnished morality and corrupt satisfaction with the status quo. But in his term in the White House, Carter has virtually ignored his promises of change, and instead pandered to the nation's emotions. He has camouflaged his failure to bring the nation an energy policy in a dangerous, confrontational foreign policy. His promises to women and minorities abandoned, he now permits all Americans to suffer 13 per cent and growing inflation. He has had his chance; he does...
Kennedy began the row. In a speech at Georgetown University on Jan. 28, he had proposed an international commission to investigate Iran's grievances against the U.S. as a quid pro quo for release of the hostages. His suggestion drew little attention, and last week he suddenly sharpened his rhetoric. In a speech at Harvard, Kennedy boomed: "For months, the White House rejected a commission on Iranian grievances-which could have freed the hostages sooner. Now, at last, the President is about to agree to it. But the Administration stubbornly resisted this solution until I and others made...