More often than not, racial explosions are set off by matchmakers eager to unite racial grievance with racial hatred to produce the spawn of violence.

Even the language of racial grievance has shifted: Overnight, the cries about driving while black have become flying while brown - a phrase referring to reports of Muslim-Americans being asked to get off planes.

They describe the verdict of the black-majority jury in the O. J. Simpson case, angrily, as "in short, another instance in which a court was overwhelmed by the politics of racial grievance."

A Harker is an eponymous unit or standard established by the Guardian to provide a benchmark for racial grievance.

Today, redressing racial grievances, or just bringing black life into the light, has become a primary task - heavy work, which has been known to produce art that is heavy, too, rather than weighty.

By focusing too narrowly on racial grievances, he said, the paper failed to capture the complexity of black life and politics in the 1990's.

Over the next two days, though, the deliberations became confrontational, suffused with racial grievance.

It was here, starting on July 12, 1967, that long simmering racial grievances boiled over at the sight of two white police officers dragging a black cabdriver into a Central Ward precinct house.

The principal's comments laid bare a caldron of racial grievances and echoes of the South's anguished past.

Mr. Sleeper, responding to a critical review of his book, declared that "a politics based on dramatizing racial grievances hasn't the ghost of a chance in America."