Word: violente
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...same way that they still see a majority of black people in America. Obama doesn’t scare white people. The clean, articulate, and bright guy whom Americans are impressed with is the exact opposite of what Americans expect black people in this country to be.Blacks are violent. Blacks are angry. Blacks are lazy. Things like racial profiling and negative media portrayals are demonstrative of the suspicious way in which many Americans view blacks and other people of color.The token helps white Americans feel as if race is no longer an issue. It’s a cover...
...same loathing that motivates the Shi'ite militias and Sunni jihadis. "The air has become poisoned [by sectarianism], and we have all been breathing it," says Abbas Fadhil, a Baghdad physician. "And so now everybody is talking the same language, whether they are educated or illiterate, secular or religious, violent...
...noticed that the public education system, an antiquated remnant of British imperialism, failed to teach children about African cultural achievement. Gsann credits this educational deficit—coupled with the lack of prominent domestic musicians—with leading Tanzanian youth to listen to American music, particularly violent American rap.Gsann and his brother formed X Plastaz so that Tanzanian youths would have access to hip hop that was truly African. X Plastaz lyrics cover everything from women’s rights to unemployment. It’s hip hop without the bling, the violence, or the expletives. The idea...
...Knights and Ed Williams observe that greater Basra "has suffered one of the worst reversals of fortune of any area in Iraq since the fall of Saddam's regime." Once a cosmopolitan city and the center of Iraq's oil industry, the city - under British control - has become a violent maelstrom of warring Islamic elements. While the British initially could patrol the city without helmets, now they travel in heavily armored vehicles. "Basra is increasingly a kleptocracy used by Islamist militias to fill their war chests," the report says...
...when the violence suddenly dropped almost to nothing. One soldier said he used to doze off at night by imagining the gunfire was the sound of rain on a tin roof. Now the nights are virtually silent. That's unusual for any Baghdad neighborhood, and eerie for a notoriously violent place like Ghazaliyah. Gunfights with insurgents and militiamen worry Sgt. Michaud less than figuring out where those enemies have gone. "I have no idea," he said. "It's kind of scary. It's kind of scary...