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...been persecuted by the pseudo-and I emphasize pseudo-liberals who want the Supreme Court packed with their own kind," he said. Others defended Carswell against the charges of racism and mediocrity. "I've hunted with him and have never heard him express one word of racial bias even privately," said Carswell's friend, Attorney Robert Pokes. "I think he would have made a good judge," said former Florida Governor LeRoy Collins, an erstwhile Southern liberal. Others were not so sure...
...understanding blocks the insights that concrete situations demand. There follow unintelligent policies and inept courses of action. The situation deteriorates to demand still further insights, and, as they are blocked, policies become more unintelligent and action more inept. What is worse, the deteriorating situation seems to provide the uncritical, biased mind with factual evidence in which the bias is claimed to be verified. So in ever-increasing measure intelligence comes to be regarded as irrelevant to practical living. Human activity settles down to a decadent routine, and initiative becomes the privilege of violence...
Walker also attributed "racist overtones and bias" to an article in the March 7 Harbus, which allegedly portrayed black students as "incompetent" to run the Boston Assistance Program, a Business School program intended to provide student consultants to black entrepreneurs...
...providing evidence on this aspect of the trial, the book is a gold mine. Judge Hoffman's bias has become an accepted national fact; the book, however, still makes startling reading as it shows the many ways Hoffman's prejudice expressed itself through the trial...
...reasons for this persistent bias are complex. Part of it is due to the particular skills the industry requires; part to the fact that the industry's greatest expansion came at the time when hiring discrimination was an accepted practice. But whatever the reasons, the results are oppressively clear. As the EEOC's chairman, William Brown, told a meeting of 115 large utility companies in 1969, the utilities have had "the worst equal employment record of all industry groupings in America." The evidence, Brown said, "will graphically demonstrate that the most effective methods of discrimination and exclusion are being practiced...