Word: afro
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This viewpoint implies that Afro-Americans, as they achieve greater parity of political and social status with whites, are somehow less capable of responding to the norms and rules of American politics inclusive pluralism than Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles, Greeks, and other ethnic groups. It is, alas, precisely this attitude toward Blacks that sparked the pathetic pandemonium in Chicago's Democratic party--a pandemonium skewed toward barring Chicago's Blacks from parity of political status with whites, and as such warrants the label "racist". When ethnic-bloc voting seeks to exclude groups from political and social parity it is then...
What white voters, in cities like Chicago, who entertain racist phobia toward Afro-American candidates fail to recognize is that their paranoid style political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough...
...ability of an increasing number of white voters to participate in aiding Afro-Americans to realize parity of political status with whites was also apparent in several other contests during the 1982 elections. Just as Indiana's white voters have elected their first Black to Congress--a Black school teacher from a 75 percent white congressional district--so Afro-American voters showed a new political maturity in the 1982 elections which is crucial to the successful evolution of inclusive-pluralistic values in American democracy. In Alabama, the customary political patterns were modified when George Wallace, seeking a political comeback, gained...
...Chicago, they can be expected to diversify their bloc-voting in the direction of trans-ethnic and issue-oriented choices. That Black voters in Alabama displayed such diversification of their voting profile, enabling ex-racist George Wallace to return to the governorship, ought to be evidence enough that Afro-Americans are as mature as--and perhaps even more mature than--whites in respecting the inclusive pluralistic ideals of American democracy...
...Tony Gilmore, the former Afro-American studies program director at the University of Maryland was sentenced to three years in prison for accepting further from a student in return for good grades...