Word: racistly
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...hand into the fat man face, crumpling a leaflet into his mouth. Under a bare tree, two securitymen twist the black to the ground. He's screaming, "I won't let any motherfucking son-of-a-bitch stand in our way." With cries of "police agent," and "white racist pig" the crowd tries to bounce the fat man into Park Drive where the police have established their security line. But nobody wants to touch...
Kaunda did not go so far as to ask South Africa to abandon its own racist policies. In fact, Vorster has begun to smooth down some of the rough edges of apartheid-by easing the job restrictions on nonwhites, for instance -thereby making his policies somewhat less objectionable to his black neighbors. Though South Africa was voted out of the U.N. General Assembly last month, Vorster vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid...
...University implants an ideology in each of us. If we internalize meritocratic assumptions, we come to think of ourselves as "better" because we "made it into Harvard" while others did not. Unless we challenge this idea, we shall enter government, industry and the educational establishment harboring a fundamentally racist, elitist and anti-working-class worldview. Thus Harvard will have successfully fulfilled its role in furnishing the ideological underpinning of an inegalitarian and oppressive society...
During the last five years, Harvard's racism has become more apparent. The intensification of discriminatory admissions policies, the continuing attacks on the Afro-American Studies Department and the elaboration of various racist theories by Harvard professors, are examples of this. Yet these are only the most blatant manifestations of the way in which racist ideology permeates all aspects of University life...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...