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...number of black elected officials has grown from 103 to more than 6,000. But the numbers conceal a disturbing reality: in many places racial antagonism is sharpening rather than abating -- a process that politicians, both white and black, have at times exacerbated. Republican TV spots on the Willie Horton case in last year's presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, "has rekindled in people's minds the connection between blacks and violent crime." - Affirmative action has provoked a second-generation backlash, particularly among working-class whites. In combining...
Maybe its because I'm a Republican, but I really don't believe that the campaign was racist. Many felt that the ads about Willie Horton being released in a Massachusetts prison furlough were playing on some level of racial fears, creating an us-against-them atmosphere...
...Willie Horton as a criminal, not as a Black man. It's true that the ad probably conjured up fear in the minds of closet racists. But to term a campaign racist because the criminal was Black is unfair to Bush and the Republican party...
Blacks should have been more concerned about Willie Horton the criminal. He escaped from prison and tortured a married couple, raping the woman several times and repeatedly pistol-whipping her husband. I'm less concerned with his color than with his actions and the program that allowed him to escape. Nonetheless, many people believe that this series of ads led to the increased racial voting around the country...
...recent presidential election was a prime example of how this attitude can manifest itself. Charges of Dukakis' lack of patriotism were "nasty." And the racist use of Willie Horton certainly "divided America...