Word: bigotism
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...liberals, civil rights leaders, the state of California, and the federal government; certainly he has been able to cooperate with none of them. (For example, Los Angeles has no poverty program.) Yorty takes all this abuse only to protect the little guy, i.e., the Los Angeles homeowner-and-casual bigot...
...Mayor Yorty's protestations, the two men clearly bear responsibility for the racial violence. Los Angeles's Negroes are economically no worse off than those in cities where there were no riots. But they feel totally isolated from the city government. Yorty, who is probably a sincere casual bigot, just doesn't like to pay much attention to them; Chief Parker sees that the police keep them in their place...
...like a day-old bird's." He is a Roman Catholic in dull bourgeois Belfast, where the "papist" minority moves with silent loathing among the majority Protestants -"the Prods." In short he feels doomed, and no one disputes his judgment. Not his solicitor father, an Eire-iiber-alles bigot who delights in Hitler's early military victories. Not his complacent mother, not his studious brother, not his pretty sister nor even his student-nurse girl friend Sally-"a nun in mufti." In fact, about the only thing that gives him any comfort is something not even the angels...
...York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that he had once been a Ku Klux Klansman. Black took to the radio to announce that he had indeed been a Klansman for a short time, added that he was not a bigot, and insisted that he would say no more about...
...find it shocking that the people of this good state of Maryland should give so much support, in such an important election, to a bigot like George Wallace. I sincerely hope that the people of the other states in the Union will show more sense and patriotism than those...