He viewed the Vietnam War as an extension of America's domestic racism and lost considerable support by advocating various black nationalist and socialist ideas.
The decision has drawn considerable local protest and accusations of racism.
Affirmative action programs were designed to help qualified students without these sorts of connections -- indeed, to help some students who have had to cope with considerable economic and social disadvantages, including racism -- in order to level the playing field.
"A Region Not Home," though it encompasses topics as seemingly disparate as Shakespeare, football, suicide, racism and Disneyland, actually has considerable thematic coherence.
Australia attracts a sizeable degree of international attention each time a public act of racism is recorded, and it happens with considerable regularity.
John Mellencamp released a song and video called "Jena", with lyrics such as "Jena, take your nooses down" which gained considerable media attention, and which Mellencamp described as a "condemnation of racism".
For a discussion meant to cover "racism, police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and related topics," Harris and Loury unsurprisingly devoted a considerable chunk of time retreading the "black-on-black crime" narrative.
