Word: anti-negro
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...civil rights coalition whose strong, united stand did much to advance meaningful legislation in the past. The voices of virulence also helped fan the riots that erupted in the nation's cities this summer. Thus Congress, which had considered previous rights bills in the context of anti-Negro violence by Southern whites, this time worked at least partly in a climate of antiwhite violence by Negroes in the North. Negro protests now sometimes seem isolated and dogmatic, as for instance during last week's furor over a handsome new school in Manhattan's East Harlem, where parents...
Inspite of his seemingly obvious role as a Negro figurehead at Harvard, Epps insists that he is not "Dean of Negro students," but that he remains interested in their activities "because I know the pain one goes through upon encountering new, integrated situations." One of the "hang-ups" of Negro students at Harvard is that they suspect all whites of being anti-Negro. It is difficult to learn, Epps explains, that this is not usually true...
...cannibal pot in which Sally is cooked, offstage, although she is eaten onstage. "I think I went too far here," Kopit explained, "not just in showing cooked portions of Sally, but in the play's whole conception. The play's intent is unclear, and could easily be interpreted as anti-Negro, though I certainly never intended...
...Isaac notes in his preface, the parallels between Indian ex-Untouchables and American Negroes are clear enough without being spelled out. The Indian government has taken fairly substantial steps, including preferential hiring, to alleviate the lot of the ex-Untouchables. But as Isaac point out, anti-Negro discrimination is at variance with America's egalitarian ideology, while Untouchability in India is sanctioned by millenia of tradition, custom, holy writ and backwardness itself...
Inside the Theatre many viewers hissed the blatantly anti-Negro scenes in the film...