Word: blacklash
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...perhaps a cruel joke Mr. Horovitz is playing on the theatregoer- but a necessary one. It is exactly the kind of communications impasse he is dealing with that spawns the rhetoric that leads to real racism, law-and-order candidates, blacklash and violence. It is no surprise that his play ends with a grotestquely scary and ecumenical ("Kill the white man! Kill the black man!") chant of murder...
...Communism in the U.S.A.," said that the defeat of Hubert Humphrey would be proof of "the irrelevance of liberalism" to the problems of contemporary society. "Even if Humphrey wins," she said, "it will only be because his New Deal smile has become a mouth-piece for 'law and order' blacklash...
...Thursday Unruh said the appointment was "a very bad mistake." He also revealed the imminent threat that public blacklash might destroy the BED. When the the Regents created the BED, Unruh said, "they did not intend to give it carte blanche ... to invite any and all dissidents." The Regents had assumed, he said, that the BED "would act with restraint...
...sure, as TV news cameras moved north with the civil rights riots, their films had another effect. Ironically, television, which had given such a boost to the civil rights movement, began to obstruct it and contribute mightily to the white blacklash. "Take the case of some recent footage on the Atlanta riots," says M.I.T. Political Scientist Harold Isaacs. "What you saw was a black blur of a face...
...Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland, Pettigrew points out, the news media emphasized the percentage of the Wallace vote without studying the size of the total vote. Actually, the votes in the primaries were considerably larger than is normal in Democratic primaries in those states. The "blacklash" then, was apparently caused by people voting who do not normally go to the polls. To call this vote a major shifting of opinion, Pettigrew said, is a "blatant fallacy...