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...affairs, with the southern schools mostly white, better funded and academically superior. Two years ago the State Commissioner of Education decided to bus white kids north and black kids south to increase racial integration. To white parents this meant sending their kids into dangerous, crime-ridden neighborhoods and inferior schools simply to please the state government far off in Albany. To principals and staff of the whiter schools, the plan meant a decline in academic excellence, an increase in disciplinary problems, and probable racial strife. The plan quietly died under the pressure from middle class whites and the state Governor...
...Bryant finished for me last June--and I suspect for many other gay people--what I had been building for nine years. Ms. Bryant brought gay rights out of the closet--she focused the issue very well: the issue was whether or not our society would treat homosexuals as inferior and as dangerous. She made many straights realize how stupid they sounded, and by sounding amazingly like Wallace in 1961 or Goldwater in 1964, she made many straights realize that they had not thought out their positions on gay rights very well...
...mother is an educated woman, and a very good public school psychologist. I had expected better from her. My father's reaction was only somewhat better. Although he said that he was unconcerned, because he did not believe that homosexuals were "inferior," he has been unable to speak to me about my homosexuality in the four months since I told him. Of my siblings, only my 15-year-old sister, apparently too young to be burdened with society's foolish conceptions of masculinity and prejudices about sexuality, was able to speak to me without great awkwardness. Only she shared...
...women's fencing team had trouble early in its match against an inferior Southeastern Massachusetts squad Saturday, as Harvard used complex attacks when direct aggressiveness would have been more appropriate...
...British, who seized the colony in 1795, were equally harsh overlords who regarded the Afrikaners as obstinate and inferior. Afrikaners were excluded from jury service because of their language, forced to accept English-speaking ministers in their churches and tormented by courts that encouraged black servants to give evidence against their masters...