Word: fuhrman
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...here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist who is the most dangerous. Mark Fuhrman's racism is easy to spot and "blacklist," but have you looked at your own "white lies" lately? This is what our protest is about. We urge members of the Harvard community to make loud opposition to institutionalized bigotry part of their daily routine in order to create a more...
...Word, a black woman who dented the car of another motorist, also black, on the Belle Isle Bridge over the Detroit River. The driver allegedly beat Word with a tire iron, then watched as she flung herself to her death off the bridge. "She wasn't killed by Mark Fuhrman," orated Farrakhan. "She wasn't killed by the oppressor. She was killed by her so-called Brother because he was mad she had bumped into his shiny...
...maybe we weren't as floored as we pretended to be at the Mark Fuhrman tapes," a young man offered. "Somebody on TV said that every black person sees something of Fuhrman in every white person...
...shot, two gravestones, a smile. The trial can be reduced to these emblems. Or to entries in a specialized gazetteer: Rockingham, Bundy, Brentwood. A bestiary: barking dog, white Bronco, blond Kato. Names on a list: Marcia and Johnnie, Darden and Shapiro, Fung, Lee, Scheck, Ito, Fuhrman. A weird alphabet: DNA, O.J., A.C., L.A.P.D., the N word. All are signposts to a greater geography, one uneasily contained on the premises of the California Superior Court. Television viewers saw the proceedings and were captured by the legal dramatics; and yet there were always hints of unseen details and untold tales...
Vannatter went on, enumerating more reasons for a search warrant: blood on the door handle of Simpson's white Bronco, blood on the driveway at his Rockingham mansion, the bloody glove found by Vannatter's junior associate, Mark Fuhrman...