Word: antiracists
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...deal with [the incidents]." At Wesleyan, a rally by 600 of the university's 2,600 students heard 20 speakers, including Campbell, the mayor of Middletown, ministers and several black undergraduates. Before the Harvard-Yale football game, 250 chanting students, black and white, marched to the stadium carrying antiracist placards...
Last spring's boycott of classes organized by the Coalition for Awareness and Action was aimed at linking racism in the United States with racism in South Africa. The University administration pays lip service to antiracist and anti-apartheid ideals but does nothing to aid the self determination of black people anywhere. Their statements calling for case-by-case reviews of corporations investing in South Africa and the most recent decision regarding the governing of Afro-Am Studies are both roadblocks to the development of autonomy for black people. Antony M. Brutus '77/80...
...liberation" of oppressed peoples, a program that includes an end to white minority governments. And in that process, violence may be necessary. The Rhodesian grant, in fact, is popular among most Third World churches, and was approved by Canada's Anglican Primate E.W. Scott and other officers. The overall antiracist grants program survived unscathed at the 1975 W.C.C. Assembly in Nairobi, attended by delegates from all World Council member churches, where a pointed floor proposal to deny church money to violent organizations was voted down...
...than 18 black and interracial organizations were banned, among them the Black People's Convention, whose leader, Steven Biko, died while in police custody in September, igniting a fresh upsurge of protest (TIME, Sept. 26); and the Christian Institute, led by the Rev. C.F. Beyers Naude, an articulate, antiracist Afrikaner. Also banned were seven white activists and journalists associated with the black cause. One of South Africa's most outspoken white journalists -Editor Donald Woods of the East London Daily Dispatch-was told of his banning as he prepared to leave the country on a speaking tour...
...element of racism in some popular attitudes toward the South Vietnamese refugees, just as Asians on the West Coast in earlier generations, both Chinese and Japanese, were subject to terrible cruelties. But such attitudes have generally been repressed since the second World War by the almost uniformly antiracist attitude of the enlightened stratum of our society. Yet the Viet Nam agony divided this group, and now this division has allowed hostility toward the South Vietnamese refugees to come to the surface...