Successive governments have avoided confronting it, avoided its reality in Irish society – more than 3,000 women a year leave Ireland to have an abortion, usually in England – and avoided acknowledging it through the provision of legislative leadership.
Nevertheless, it is incumbent upon us as African-Americans to make sure that President Obama earns our votes and is consistently reminded that being the first African-American president only means something as long as he is unafraid to acknowledge it through governance.
"If you sent the films through Chicago," Madden once acknowledged, "it always took longer.
It's a story of trauma — of a gender-centered trauma involving the physical force exerted by males (of any age) against females — and of that trauma's enduring power in the life of a woman who hasn't acknowledged it, faced it, and worked through it.
It is necessary to acknowledge it, go through a post-traumatic period, and, only after that, try to establish a relationship on the basis of mutual respect and equality.
"Sometimes you just don't know how to react, the timing of when to acknowledge it," Suzuki said through an interpreter.
If there was any incongruity between those moments, Mr. James and company weren't about to acknowledge it, except maybe through a kind of hardheaded disregard.
For the sake of the Republic, let's acknowledge it, and begin to think through its implications for our lives... and our politics.
The Guatemala project came years before Enron collapsed in 2001 after acknowledging it hid $1.2 billion in losses through hundreds of off-the-books partnerships.
If a thought does happen to pop into your head, acknowledge it, and let it pass through.
