Word: anti-negro
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...initial reflex of the habitual home-rule opponents when Johnson revealed his plan was one of opposition. The president of the anti-Negro Federation of Citizen's Association sputtered, "We regard this entire program as a subterfuge to try to slip through Congress the home-rule proposal which it turned down last year...
...help a man by constantly giving him more and more handouts, over and over," exhorts the candidate. "You destroy his self-respect. What we want to do is to make men productive." Many a white politician is using the same argument this fall to exploit anti-Negro feeling. But the speaker in this case is Edward W. Brooke, 47, Republican attorney general of Massachusetts who, if victorious on Nov. 8, will be the first Negro U.S. Senator in nearly a century...
Brooke himself has not emphasized racial issues in previous campaigns. Yet, though his Democratic opponent, former Governor Endicott Peabody, 46, is an ardent civil rights advocate, Brooke has seen his early lead threatened by anti-Negro reaction, and of late has denounced both Stokely Carmichael and Lester Maddox as "the extremists of black power and white power...
Responsible Negro leaders, in consequence, are beginning to speak out against the separatist and racist implications of the philosophy. " 'Black power' not only lacks any real value for the civil rights movement," writes Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, in the current Commentary, "but its propagation is positively harmful. It diverts the movement from a meaningful debate over strategy and tactics, it isolates the Negro community, and it encourages the growth of anti-Negro forces...
...Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban riots and the "black-power" threat had lent credibility to its shabby hokum among those "who previously would have neither listened nor heard." Misdirected Negro militancy also gives those who might otherwise be ashamed of their anti-Negro prejudices a ready-made excuse and self-justification...