Word: distruster
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...seems that in most cases, self-segregation has less to do with hate or distrust and more to do with comfort level; people generally feel more to do with comfort level; people generally feel more at home among those they relate to. For many minorities, that group naturally entails others of the same race. No one anywhere is innocent of this desire to associate with compatible people. Moreover, the phenomena of self-segregation among minorities is more visible precisely because the students are minorities. As many have pointed out, people rarely notice, or condemn, a dining table or rooming group...
...will be more likely to see Blacks as "those people in that dorm," rather than as "the guy down the hall." That distinction between seeing people as individuals versus seeing them as members of a certain race makes all the difference. The former fosters understanding and dialogue, the latter distrust and prejudice. The resultant distrust ensures that the self-segregation of one group will soon be followed by that of others...
...Republic argued for with-drawing her nomination, warning that Guinier "stands against everything that Clinton once promised in terms of a new, integrationist approach to civil rights." On this view, Lani Guinier was merely the flipside of the cynical racial politics of the Reagan era: but instead of distrusting blacks, she promoted the distrust of whites. Guinier, like many Republicans, believed "in the racial analysis of an irreducible, racial `us' and `them' in American society...
...Guinier is playing up a new image. And it's working. People are starting to see her as progressive, upbeat, and mainstream. Instead of conveying distrust, Guinier now calls up the optimistic belief that America can get past the "poison of racism" with the right reforms. This Lani Guinier ends her new book with a plea for racial healing, public dialogue, positive-sum solutions, moving the country forward, and further progress "towards Martin Luther King's vision of a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin...
...deeply worried about a narcodemocracy developing," says a senior U.S. official. Another concern: DEA and State Department officers believe sensitive information provided to Colombian prosecutors has leaked to the cartel and may have led to the deaths of family members of anti-Cali witnesses. So strong is American distrust that U.S. officials have stopped sharing information with the Colombian justice system...