Word: belled
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...rule, it's a good idea to bring speakers of different viewpoints to campus. That may well have been what the Black Students Association (BSA) intended when it gave Wellesley professor of Africana Studies Tony Martin a campus forum last week to discuss the controversial book, The Bell Curve...
...denounce the Jewish tradition and the Jewish people for holding a "monopoly" on centuries-worth of the notion of divinely ordained African inferiority. Repeating his belief that the "so-called Sages" of the Babylonian Talmud were the earliest racists of recorded history, Martin urged Harvard students to consider The Bell Curve, a controversial new book linking race and intelligence, as only the latest manifestation of a racist tradition spawned by Jews...
...biggest question, I suppose, is whether Kristen Clarke thinks, in the face of The Bell Curve and all sorts of racism in American society, that Black students should fixate on Martin's imagined notions of Judaism and the Jewish people as enemies of Black folk...
...life terms to which he was sentenced just last week. Today a judge sentenced the antiabortion activist to death in the electric chair for slaying an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic. Hill listened with a blank look on his face as Judge Frank Bell read his sentence. But an abortion foe who was in court yelled out: "This man is innocent and his blood will be on your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge said he had rejected life in prison -- an option...
What affirmative action affirms, covertly -- the hidden premise, growing more powerful -- is a proposition not distant from the conclusions of Messrs. Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve. In an America where all the genes of the world have settled and hope to succeed, the only way to justify open-ended affirmative action for blacks is to shake one's head and say, "Well, you know, we have to do this: African Americans are inherently inferior." Who would have thought the mind-set of a Kluxer would turn up as U.S. government policy...