Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life," Bell said, "Martin King recognized that the real challenge facing Black Americans was broadening the Constitution's protection to encompass the sacrosanct area of economic rights...
Urging his audience to fight worsening national racism, Bell questioned whether the United States had come very far since the Constitution confirmed the legality of slavery...
...science fiction story, Bell asked whether white Americans living in a ruined world would choose to restore their economy and natural resources in return for enslaving their Black neighbors to extraterrestials. In Bell's scenario, Black Americans allowed a white-controlled constitutional convention to disenfranchise them, overriding their protests in the name of due process and majority rule...
...Bell said Black student audiences did not find his story unrealistic. In fact, he argued that in the recent presidential election, both political parties showed a racism similar in kind if not in degree to that of the whites in the story...
Charging that the Democrats treated Black supporters as though they were dispensable, Bell said, "As a result, [Democratic leaders] were neither morally nor tactically ready for the blatant racism in the Republican campaign...