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...shown that many are not ready to laugh at their own prejudices. "Not all black people are hoodlums," wrote a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel subscriber. Others see the strip as antiwhite. "I think you should offer David Dukes equal room," fumed an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reader. Two small papers, in Aiken, S.C., and Massilon, Ohio, have canceled the strip. "Our readers couldn't see the humor," said Scott Hunter, publisher of the Aiken Standard...
According to Albert Gold, associate dean for administration in DEAS, the primary purpose of the new building, which necessitated the removal of the Aiken Computation Center, was to allow for expansion of the division...
Stewart said when he arrived in the Quad Fridayevening to pick up leftovers for the shelter, HDSstaff members told him John M. Aiken, HDS managerfor the Quad Houses, had instructed them to stopfood distribution to the First Church...
...them. "The only difference was, they were always white and I'm black," says Willar Hightower. "Eventually, you realize it's discrimination." Willar and Josephine Hightower are now incipient rebels, taking part in a class action that has the potential of upending the town. Willar, who is on the Aiken County council, says local officials have remained uncharacteristically reticent about the lawsuit. "Not a word. No one has asked a question," says Hightower. "When there's absolute silence if you walk into a room, that says a lot, doesn...
...there is a strange, nervous quiet too from much of Aiken's African-American community, which makes up 45% of the town. While prayer services in local black churches have been held for the cause, anxiety levels are higher now that the couple has become a driving force in the lawsuit against Westinghouse, charging that blacks, who constitute about 22% of the 11,500 employees, have systematically been denied promotions and been kept at the most hazardous jobs. Only 400 of the site's 2,500 minority employees have joined the Hightowers. "There...