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Gary Younge

Friday 26th of April 2024

Civil rights Integration had won African Americans  the opportunity to eat at any restaurant. Only equality could ensure that they would be able to pay the bill. Gary Younge, Stranger in a Strange Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Death Since last month the military has been using “ceremonial buglers” at some military funerals—a tape that can be inserted into a bugel and sounds like the real thing. “We've got 1,800 veterans dying each day, and only 500 buglers,”  said Lieutenant Coloned Cynthia Colin, a defense department spokeswoman. “We needed to do something to fill the void.” Gary Younge, November 7, 2003 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Race “Where are you from?” “London.” “Well where were you born?” “London.” “Well, before then?” “There was no before then!” “Well, where are your parents from?” “Barbados.” “Oh, so you're from Barbados.” “No, I'm from London.” Gary Younge, a black Briton, recounting a “typical conversation” in England, in Stranger in a Strange Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality America was 200 years a slave state; 100 years an apartheid state; and just over 50 years a non-racial democracy. The concept of equality is relatively new. Gary Younge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism Nobody ever went broke betting on the popular appeal of American racism. Gary Younge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Bush didn't win an election; he won a court case. George W. Bush portrayed by Gary Younge © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Victimhood If you are looking for someone making political hay out of victimhood nowadays, look no further than the right. … In these cases,  victimhood serves merely as a pretext for a backlash to reassert, extend or expand the dominance of the powerful. If these people are victims of anything, it is of the threat to their entitlement and privilege. Gary Younge, Stranger in a Strange Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com