Word: classism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more extreme fear among blacks was expressed in an Atlanta speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tax rebellion is now being used as the new code word-like busing and Bakke-for racism and classism," he told a national P.T.A. convention. The revolt, he claimed later, may prove to be "the greatest threat the black middle class has ever known...
...that this "real menace" of a few may lead others to consider all ghetto dwellers as similarly fearsome. There is a danger, he said, that the cities may be left with only "a black minority held back from entrance into broader society, not only by racial prejudice and economic classism, but by the growing fear stereotype that unfairly labels them with social menace." None of that, said Romney, can be dealt with "by hiding behind scapegoats -whether Secretary Romney, HUD, the Nixon Administration or any other available target...