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...Forsyth County, Georgia, Howard Beach, N.Y., Medford, Mass., Newton, Mass., Amherst, Mass., Cambridge, Mass. and many other hamlets--Racism seems to becoming an expected part of life in America once again. It used to be taboo, but not any more. Sadly, it seems that some of the biggest bigots around today are college students. And the state with the most racist activity? Massachusetts. Governor Michael S. Dukakis must do more than issue reports on specific racist incidents especially now that he is a prominent presidential probable. Dukakis has a chance for real leadership in fighting the resurgence of racism...
...rush to identify and combat racism, we've all become a bit like that man searching in the small, well-lit corner of an otherwise dark room. We search the familiar places even if what we want to find is nowhere nearby. That's what has been happening in Forsyth County, Georgia...
Just what were the upper middle-class Blacks and whites who took part in the second Forsyth march protesting? Was it a revival of the Jim Crow mentality? Or was it the more subtle racism which now denies an equal opportunity to this nation's minorities? If they were protesting the latter, the protestors were marching down the wrong road...
Violent racism is dead. A generation ago, Birmingham's chief of police, Bull Connor, was sending dogs out to attack Blacks. Nowadays, the law--if not all the people--are on the side of Blacks. Powerless, frustrated whites hurling rocks at protesters in Forsyth is not evidence of the return of Connorism. Cummings, Georgia is not symbolic of the racism that exists in American today. Racism's current incarnation is as hidden as it is persistent...
This latter-day apartheid dismayed Charles Blackburn, a bearded karate instructor who had moved to Forsyth County from California. So he began organizing what he called a walk for brotherhood. Amid threats and lack of support, he called off his plans. Others insisted on going ahead. Soon local Klansmen let it be known that, as Sheriff Wesley Walraven put it, "they want to exercise their rights also...