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Pasted across the cover of the most recent issue of The New Republic, this so-called ethical dilemma has been making headlines nationwide ever since Washington Postcolumnist Richard Cohen wrote about the issue in early September. Apparently, many Washington jewelers have chosen not to admit young black men, and, according to Cohen, that's just fine. After all, these people commit an inordinately large percentage of robberies, and business is business. It's not racism, just common sense...
...seems that Richard Cohen is not alone. Dipping into the "respectable" citizen pool at large, The New Republic asked a handful of people, some of them Black, how they would respond to the jewelers' dilemma. While not all of them were as unabashed as Cohen, most of them took the jewelers' side...
...that these respondents are bigots of the worst kind is to do them too much justice. If they were unwilling to share bathrooms and water fountains, at least their intentions would be unmistakable. But by making the dilemma an issue of statistics instead of race, they hope to appear respectable, even liberal...
...chop up" SDI and thus, in effect, hand Gorbachev, free of charge, what he could not buy at a very high price in Reykjavik. Speakes later conceded that the speech had been "too shrill." Yet those in Congress who believe SDI should be a bargaining chip do face a dilemma: if they cut back funding for the program, which has so far been valuable in wangling serious concessions from the Soviets, it loses its value as a bargaining chip...
...white rule. Though outlawed since 1960, the A.N.C. has emerged during the unrest of the past two years as the focal point of political allegiance in the seething black townships, the source of growing guerrilla ferment and, paradoxically, a possible key to an eventual solution of the South African dilemma. In Nelson Mandela and four other A.N.C. leaders who have spent the past 24 years in prison for their campaign against apartheid, the organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic by the day to a vast majority of blacks. In the face...