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Banfield flatly denies any of the charges that radicals have plagued him with for more than six years. "I am not a racist," Banfield says. "It is alleged that I have written that blacks are biologically inferior to whites, but that is wholly untrue. If some people call me a racist they will have to re-define the word...
...Sometimes you hear stories, can infer this from his family circumstances or tell if he's at a manifestly inferior university," Mansfield said, noting that in most cases, "some members of the department know him quite well already...
Though the discussion is supposed to center on issues of scholarship, Mansfield said he feels that confidentiality of the meetings is necessary to insure candor by the participants. "Academics are good at telling someone their faults when they are inferior or in print," he said, "but on a face-to-face basis they tend to get either very angry or very inarticulate, and I think you could see this...
...schools of Detroit and Boston [Sept. 1] were examined in court, far from headlines, and found to be racially segregated, offering today and every day inferior education to black children. Black people still cannot understand why busing was perfectly acceptable when it was used to segregate the races and only when it was used to desegregate schools did it become a monstrous thing...
...attempting to become a conglomerate, CBS has made some onerous acquisitions. To compete with RCA, it bought Hytron, a manufacturer of inferior TV sets, and finally abandoned it at a loss of $50 million. Shortly after CBS bought the New York Yankees in 1964, the glamorous team became a second-division bore. It was sold...