1. Which production company made a movie with these lyrics?

   Oh, I come from a land From a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam.
   Where they cut off your ear If they don't like your face
   It's barbaric, but hey, it's home.

   1. Orion

   2. MGM

   3. Disney

2. During which television season were there more extraterrestrials than Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians combined on prime time?
   1. Fall 1990.

   2. Fall 1985.

   3. Fall 1980.

3. Which quote are you most likely to hear on or around January 15?
   1. "I have a dream that one day my four small children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

   2. "We can talk about guns and butter all we want to, but when the guns are there with all of its emphasis you don't even get good oleo. These are facts of life."

   3. "A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth."

4. Who said b an c above?
   1. Malcolm X.

   2. Martin Luther King, Jr.

   3. Nat Turner.

5. Which cost the most?
   1. 1991 street crime.

   2. Looting during the Los Angeles rebellions in May 1992.

   3. Savings and loan misappropriation.

6. What is the ratio of people who are murdered to those who die as a result of unhealthy or unsafe conditions in the workplace?
   1. 1:1

   2. 1:2

   3. 2:1

7. Which group was referred to by the media as "misguided youths"?
   1. Boys from Howard Beach who killed one man and beat two others for being in their neighborhood after dark.

   2. Boys from New Jersey who gang-raped a special education student.

   3. Boys from East Harlem who assaulted and raped a woman jogging in New York's Central Park.

8. Which national figure bought land on which to build his future retirement home and signed a contract that he would not "sell, lease or rent" that land to anyone from a different race?
   1. Jesse Jackson.

   2. Ronald Reagan.

   3. George Bush.

9. In the U.S., who are you most likely to be victimized by?
   1. A person of another race.

   2. A person of your own race.

   3. Race is not a factor.

10. For 1991 hate crime offenses where the identity of the perpetrator was known, which percentage of the perpetrators were identified as African-American?
    1. 30%

    2. 15%

    3. 5%

Answers:

1. c. Lyrics from Aladdin. Source: New York Times, July 14, 1993.

2. a. Fall 1990. Source: UPI and AP wire stories.

3. a. The Washington Post stated that Martin Luther King Jr.'s criticism of the war in Vietnam "diminished his usefulness to his cause, to his country, and to his people." Time accused King of "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." He responded by saying, "I have been working too long and too hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns, for since justice is indivisible, injustice anywhere is an affront to justice everywhere."

   Source: ibid., 252.

4. b. MLK, jr.

   Malcolm X was a African-American Islamic preacher. He once said, "if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure and hinder and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color."

   Nat Turner was a prophetic African held in bondage who led a major rebellion in Virginia in 1831.

   Source: Malcolm X and Alex Haley, Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York, Random, 1965); Vincent Harding, There is A River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America (New York: Random, 1981).

5. c. Looting during the L.A. rebellions cost $0.75 billion. Street crime during 1991 cost $14.9 billion. Savings and loan misappropriation (looting) cost $450 billion.

   Source: National Council on Crime and Delinquency Focus (June 1992), 7.

6. b. For every U.S. citizen who is murdered, two die as a result of unhealthy or unsafe conditions in the workplace. Jeffrey H. Reiman, professor of criminal justice at American University, says, "Although these work-related deaths could have been prevented, they are not called murders. The label 'crime' is not used in America to name all or the worst of the actions that cause misery and suffering to Americans. It is primarily reserved for the dangerous actions of the poor."

   Source: Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon, Unreliable Sources: A Guide To Detecting Bias in New Media (New York, Carol Publishing Group, 1991), 242.

7. a/b The white boys from Howard Beach (who killed black men) and the white middle-class boys from New Jersey (who raped a white girl) were referred to as mis-guided youths. The black boys from East Harlem were referred to as "wolves," "savages," and "mutants."

   Source: ibid., 244.

8. c. On February 4, 1981, after he became Vice President, George Bush bought a lot in West Oaks, Texas, as the site of a future home in an all-white community. Bush signed a contract with a clause that the land could not "be sold, leased or rented to any person other than of the Caucasian race, except in the servant's quarters." He has signed several other similar deeds since the 1950's. Bush's spokesperson said, "There's really nothing to this."

   Source: ibid., 246.

9. b. Most white people are victimized by white people (75% in the U.S). Most black people are victimized by black people (85% in the U.S.).

   Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, FBI, Knight-Ridder Tribune as appearing in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 1, 1993.

10. a. The FBI listed 2,053 hate crime offenses for which the perpetrator was known (another 2,722 perpetrators were not identified). Of the known perpetrators, 65% were white; 30%, African-American; and 2%, other races. However, the figures are highly suspect since, for example, 17 states have failed to submit any hate crime statistics to the FBI.

    Source: American Jewish Committee study of 1991 Department of Justice Hate Crime Statistics in "Fact Sheet on Hate Crimes - 1993," Center for Democratic Renewal, Atlanta, Georgia.