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...side effect of the racial hysteria that enveloped Boston after Carol Stuart's murder was to strengthen a fear among many African Americans that they are the targets of a white-orchestrated genocide plot. That belief has become endemic in recent years, as crack has invaded ghettos across the nation, causing so much death and destruction that many blacks are convinced its spread cannot be accidental. More or less preposterous genocide theories are being spun by black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan, so-called intellectuals and prominent clergymen. Even the National Urban League published this passage in its 1989 report...
During the last five years, police have repeatedly sought to crack down on illicit sexual activity in the Science Center bathrooms. In 1985, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III ordered the doors on lavatory stalls removed, shortly after two undergraduates and a University employee filed formal complaints that they had been harassed in the bathroom...
...topsy-turvy U.S. economy, it depends where you live. The Northeast is slumping; the Southwest is resurgent. -- Navy agents crack a bid-rigging scheme...
Well, damn it, neither are most African Americans. It is time for white society to finally realize that the overwhelming of African Americans, like whites, are not crack-smoking, thieving murderers. We must end this inequality of treatment by the police. The persistent negative stereotypes of the African American community are invalid. As with whites, our civil rights must be protected regardless of the supposed acts of one or a few individuals...
...serve as a kind of Praetorian Guard for members of the Communist Party's Central Committee and specifically the Ceausescu family. Many of the 75,000 or so troops were recruited from orphanages and raised to regard their job with a loyalty bordering on fanaticism. Other uniformed crack troops, equipped with armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, were assigned to supervise the country's border patrol and guard the political prisons. A particularly brutish department known as Service K specialized in torturing political prisoners. Apart from these overt operations, as many as 3 million informants and collaborators -- in a population...