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black people should start taking back these images from our iconography
that have been stolen and corrupted through the years by racists.
. . . You see these rap and hip-hop artists wearing tiny little braids just
like those stereotypical pickaninny pictures. But it's a statement of our
power instead of self-loathing. . . . It is subverting the perversion.
New York Times B3 (June 17, 1992); James (1992).
94 Germans were naively surprised by British anger at the proposed commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the launching of the V-2 rocket.
Organisers claimed they were only honouring the "outstanding scientific
and technical achievement" of "the first step into space." The head of the
German Aerospace Trade Association, which sponsored the event, complained
that "the celebrations have unfortunately become the subject of
political discussions, which do not do justice to the scientific facts."
Winston Churchill (a Conservative MP and son of the wartime Prime
Minister) pronounced: "civilised nations do not celebrate weapons systems."
To which the Munchner Merkur replied: "Some of those now
protesting stood by silently or applauded when the Queen Mother
unveiled a monument to Sir Arthur Harris, who as head of the British
Bomber Command in World War II was responsible for the reprehensible
bombardment of German cities and the deaths of hundreds of thousands
of civilians." New York Times A1 (September 29, 1992).
95 New York Times A7 (February 19, 1991), s.3 p.1 (March 22, 1992).
96 Bettelheim (1976). The South African Broadcasting Company thinks
differently. A report urging a ban on the occult concluded: "Good
children's stories try to help children to create an aversion to what is evil
(and to everything and everyone associated with it) and to appreciate and
strive after what is good." Weekly Mail 15 (September 18, 1992).
97 Felstiner et al. (1980-81). When France passed a law against sexual
harassment (the toughest in Europe), a public opinion poll revealed that
20 per cent of French women would not consider themselves harassed if
asked to undress during a job interview, and 45 per cent would not if a
male superior asked them to spend a weekend discussing a requested
promotion. New York Times s.1 p. 10 (May 3, 1992).
98 Nader (1980); Harris et al. (1984); Abel (1985b); Hensleretal. (1991);
Merry (1990); Yngvesson (1988); Mather & Yngvesson (1980-81); Baumgartner
(1986); Engel (1987); Greenhouse (1986).
99 Russell & Howard (1983); Bourque (1989). Extrapolating a study based on
telephone interviews with 4008 women, the National Victim Center and
the Medical University of South Carolina estimated that at least 12.1
million American women had been raped once, 61 per cent as minors;
683,000 adult women were raped in 1990; 70 per cent did not want their
families to find out; two-thirds were afraid of being blamed themselves.
This figure was five times the Justice Department estimate. New York
Times A14 (April 24, 1992). A Senate Judiciary Committee study estimated
that three out of four women who suffer spousal abuse do not
report it. The Surgeon General lists violence as the leading health risk
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