Word: anti-negro
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...party of Lincoln are also alarmed. They fear that Goldwater's managers will cynically seek to inflame Negro-white tensions in the hope that a civil rights explosion would propel their man into the White House on a tide of segregationist votes. As it is, Goldwater will get few Negro votes. "Some Negroes are Republicans because of their conservative philosophy," says Dr. Lee Shelton, Negro vice chairman of Georgia's Fulton County Republican committee, "but none are anti-Negro. That's what they're being asked to be in the Goldwater campaign...
Gains from white "backlash" seem to go almost entirely to Republicans. Last fall Republicans narrowed Democratic majorities sharply by a go-slow attitude on civil rights. Anti-Negro voters have little trust in the party that wins a large majority of Negro votes...
...RACE. In view of the national turmoil about discrimination against Negroes, it is remarkable that the study uncovered very little anti-Negro prejudice. Negroes showed detectable biases against the successful and the established-business executives, for example. Negroes also show biases in favor of the young, the poor and the unemployed...
Powell throws the "anti-Negro" stone as a weapon of attack as well as defense. Three years ago he charged that the New York City police department practices discrimination against Negroes. In the course of a House speech on that subject, Powell declared that one Esther James, a Harlem Negro, had been "extorting money from gamblers for the purpose of transmitting this money to police officers.'' Later, in a TV interview, he called Mrs. James "a bagwoman for the police department." That seemingly pointless attack on one of his own race proved to be a costly blunder...
...secretarial salary, and sharply increased the spending of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is chairman. What really bugged the boys was Powell's defense-he insisted that he had only done "what every Congressman does," and he castigated his critics as being anti-Negro...