Word: colorblindness
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...triumphs of last autumn, fulfilled in the January oath takings, did not happen without struggle. In South Carolina, Republican Albert Watson blatantly pitched his gubernatorial campaign to racial fears. He was defeated by Democrat John West, who pledged a "colorblind" administration and appointed a black to a top advisory post. West's promises were rooted in more than altruism: political analysts attribute his slim victory margin to some 110,000 black voters. The altered arithmetic of South Carolina politics has even touched that prototype of the traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director...
...South Carolina last week, John C. West pledged a "colorblind" administration and appointed a young black to a top position on his staff. West had been a winner over Republican Albert Watson, whose campaign bluntly played on fears of busing and defiance of court orders and had the benefit of personal campaigning by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Housing, education and hunger, West said, were the problems that would occupy his administration, not the old bitterness of race...
...common complaint among many Negroes-and more than a few whites -is that U.S. justice is all too often far from colorblind. Three recent criminal cases, all involving youthful Negro defendants and all leading to harsh sentences, have prompted black and white citizens alike to protest the severity of the courts...
...generals are troubled by the possibility that black soldiers will find that they owe higher fealty to the black community than to the U.S. Army. "The problem is so fearful," admits one officer, "that we won't even discuss these people as Negroes." Yet the Army, officially colorblind, cannot single out black soldiers and question their reliability in advance...
...least one, the Rev. Vendyl Jones of Sudan, Texas, lent civilian support. Wandering near the Jordan border from a kibbutz where he had been working, the Baptist minister started talking to the Israeli commander, who soon discovered that the Rev. Mr. Jones possessed a rare skill. His eyes, though colorblind, are somehow uniquely sensitive to the kind of synthetic dyes used in camouflage fabrics. "When I see that kind of dye," he explained, "it shines like new money." Peering through binoculars, he soon spotted, clear as neon, the important details of a neatly concealed Jordanian gun emplacement a mile away...