Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here's another reason to hate California...
...women and children who had clearly come home to Brother Farrakhan. Discount some of their zeal as a thumb-your-nose-at-Whitey exercise. Discount some as exuberance or hysteria in numbers. Still, the Garden heaved with hatred. If you closed your eyes you could picture all the hate mobs ever--Khomeini's mob, Kahane's mob. Their hatred was palpable, enormous. It changed reality. Suddenly the crowd was in the millions, encompassing the living and the dead...
...leap to attention whenever the audience went wild, as if creating a sudden row of exclamation points. The drill suggested that the audience must have been bursting to express its hatred all along. It seemed so. Farrakhan may be a second-rate demagogue, but he has some first-rate hate to play with...
...That hate is directed straight at Jews, not "Zionists" or "Israel" or any other euphemism employed on Monday night. Black anti-Semitism is a special sore spot with Jewish Americans, some of whom gave their lives in the civil rights wars of the 1950s and 1960s. Many more blacks have stood side by side with Jews against bigotry than have stood against them. Yet lately some black ministers and politicians have sounded ambivalent about Farrakhan, praising the self-help program as valuable and treating the bigotry as a minor flaw. Writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned...
...that peril was what one really felt last Monday night. No matter how often the hate words spilled, no matter how loud the approval, a sense of reality prevailed: this is an unimpressive man with a relatively small knot of believers. If it is true that from time to time demagogues get too far in the democracy, it is also true that eventually a decent, awakened majority always brings them low. Yet even a limited display of this kind is infuriating and scary. It seizes the imagination and grows immense. After the speech a fifth column of haters walked down...