Word: antiblack
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...this society. Thus whites or blacks can kill blacks, and it is not seen in the same manner as when whites are killed. I regard this attitude as a cultural conspiracy to kill black people. Whether physically, politically, economically, psychologically or spiritually, the personality of the American culture is antiblack. Black life is not viewed as being on a par with white life...
...anybody with broad-gauged taste. Among them: Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Catch-22, Soul on Ice, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Little Black Sambo and Merchant of Venice run into recurring protests based on suspicions that the former is antiblack, the latter antiSemitic. One school board banned Making It with Mademoiselle, but reversed the decision after finding out it was a how-to pattern book for youngsters hoping to learn dressmaking. Authorities in several school districts have banned the American Heritage Dictionary not only because it contains unacceptable words...
...wave of antiblack attacks began in early November. During homecoming, two figures in white sheets planted a wooden cross on campus. Few took any notice until the pair doused the cross with gasoline, ignited it and escaped. Williams, a small liberal arts college in a rural corner of northwestern Massachusetts, is not the only school in the Northeast where racial incidents have occurred...
...widower who has been mugged by blacks, suffered a stroke and is blisteringly irate to find himself in the hands of a black therapist. Formidably equipped for any racial skirmish, Mrs. Washington (Esther Rolle) is the kind of woman who could make the Rock of Gibraltar crumble. While the antiblack, anti-Jewish jokes may offend those of liberal pieties, the laughter on opening night roared through Broadway's John Golden Theater at hurricane force. The odd couple radiates sweetness and light at the end of the evening...
...hundred years and more the United States has been generally free of what Europeans would call 'Men of the Right.' An amalgam of radical individualism and nativist Main Street values--antiblack, anti-foreign, fundamentalist--has historically passed as a unique American conservatism...