Myth #1: Quote: "But as anyone with a kid in high school here can tell you, race in many ways is yesterday's local news. Horror stories notwithstanding, there's not a clique in the cul-de-sac that isn't a little of this skin tone, a little of that one. Their parents may see themselves as black or white or latino or Asian, but kids sort by much subtler rules." Source: "Suburbia's Simmering Class Struggle" by Shawn Hubler. Los Angeles Times (September 28, 1998), B1. The author finds that democracy is working and that the way the races come together first in school is doing away with racism so that it can no longer be considered a threat.
Myth #2: Quote: "I remember when . . . the Nazis forced (Jews) to wear yellow stars as identity badges. So, what color star will they pin on gun owners' chests?---Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, January 1998." Quoted in "Have Gun, Will Travel: But can Heston's Celebrity and Rhetoric Revive the N.R.A.?" by Margot Hornblower. Time (July 6, 1998):44-46. Charlton Heston equates gun licensing legislation with the racial atrocities of the Holocaust. Flagrant rhetoric that offends by demeaning the racial element.
Myth #5: Quote: "But there are also teens like Aisha Grayton, 17, who sits on a bench at the St. Nicholas housing projects, six months pregnant after two miscarriages and an abortion. 'I got talked to, but I do what I want to do,'she says, calling out the number of girls she knows who are pregnant." "The Opposite of Sex," by Tamala M. Edwards. Time (July 13, 1998): 39. Ms. Edwards' article is primarily about the dropping birth rate among unmarried black girls, but individuals like Aisha Grayton are often pointed out as examples of recalcitrant minorities who prefer to do what they please even though their activities may isolate them.
Myth #7: Quote: "America loves gangsta rap because it releases the nation from guilt; it makes it seem as if the disenfranchised...