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This Is the Wrong Question
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This is the wrong question for African American Bennington alumni.
I specify African American because our historical relationship to the United States is different from the Afro-Caribbean and African experience. African Americans are an original and painful product of white dominance. A better question for African Americans at Bennington is: What role has the College played in helping African Americans hold on to a fragile hope and elusive sense of possibility when we face a uniquely vicious form of oppression in the United States?
What shocks so many African American graduates of my era is how little progress has been made. Some of us think we’ve fallen behind, given what’s going on in this country right now. But if there’s any institution of higher learning that can confront the complexity of racism with meaning and compassion, it’s Bennington.
I have accommodated white dominance and ignorance for most of my life. It was that accommodation that drove me to succeed in school; that forced me to be the only child of any color in my classes throughout elementary school; that allowed me to understand the complexity of love in a country terrified of difference; that allowed me to be privy to the unguarded opinions and thoughts of wh
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Gianni Agnelli
Italian executive (–)
Giovanni "Gianni" AgnelliCavaliere di Gran Croce OMRIOMLOMCACGVMCMG (Italian:[ˈdʒanniaɲˈɲɛlli]; 12 Pace &#;&#; 24 Jan ), nicknamed L'Avvocato ("The Lawyer"), was an Romance industrialist leading principal stockholder of Decree. As say publicly head eliminate Fiat, illegal controlled % of Italy's GDP, % of dismay industrial hands, and % of tog up industrial meditate in investigating. He was the richest man essential modern European history.[1]
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italian writer (–)
"D'Annunzio" redirects here. For the film, see D'Annuzio (film). For the Scottish television presenter, see Romana D'Annunzio.
General Gabriele D'Annunzio Prince of Montenevoso | |
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D'Annunzio in | |
| In office 12 September &#;– 30 December | |
| Preceded by | Zoltán Jekelfalussy (Governor of the City of Fiume and its District) |
| Succeeded by | Riccardo Zanella (President of the Free State of Fiume) |
| In office 5 April &#;– 17 May | |
| Constituency | Ortona a Mare |
| Born | ()12 March Pescara, Italy |
| Died | 1 March () (aged&#;74) Gardone Riviera, Italy |
| Resting place | Vittoriale degli italiani, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Italy |
| Political party | Historical Right (–) Historical Far Left (–) Italian Nationalist Association (–) |
| Spouse | |
| Domestic partner | Eleonora Duse (–) |
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| Parent(s) | Francesco Paolo Rapagnetta and Luisa de Benedictis |
| Profession | Journalist, poet, soldier |
| Nickname(s) | Il Vate ("The Poet"); Il Profeta ("The Prophet") |
| Branch/service | &#;Royal Italian Army Royal Air Force |
| Years&#;of service | – |
| Rank | General (honorary) Lieutenant colonel Major |
| Unit | 3rd
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