Word: bigotism
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Naturally, a high percentage of Crandall's calls have to do with integration, pro and con. He never hesitates. "Madam, you are a bigot," he barked at one caller. Last week he took on several waves of Negroes who were all for the stall-in scheme at the New York World's Fair. He said that sort of demonstration was "going too far, hitting the wrong people at the wrong time." In argument with a Negro girl last week, he asked: "Do you want me to accept you as an individual...
...recent presidential primary. The majority of Wisconsin voters now consider our Governor Reynolds to be a hapless incompetent who should never have been elected in the first place. He has carved out a record so bad that Republican and independent voters would rather cast their ballot for a bigot than a boob. The fact that Reynolds got a large vote-completely out of proportion to his popularity-is to the credit of Wisconsin's voters...
...greeted by a jeering band of 400 college students. He endured rough questioning at a meeting with 17 Protestant clergymen. An overflow crowd of 2,000 curiosity-seekers jammed the civic auditorium to hear him preach against the civil rights bill-and to raise placards reading "Go Home, Bigot" and "Keep Your Dogs in Birmingham...
...Cassias Clay's contract; he is demanding the dethronement of Cassius X. The heart of Lassman's case against Clay is the champion's personal behavior and its effect upon "the boxing world" and "the youth of the world," and here Lassman betrays himself as a fool and a bigot...
...Northerners, principally through our newspapers, gather the impression that every Southerner is ignorant, an oppressor and a bigot, while we are tolerant and understanding. We are patting ourselves on the back without justification. While discrimination against the Negro in the South is of an overt nature, here it lurks stealthily underground, and it is concealed by our hypocritical behavior...