Word: klan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quote attributed to me in you April 18th article on a debate of Black leftists was incorrect. The statement in reference to the Klan. "We must smash the hell out of them," was said by Ed Jarvis of the Sparticus League, not me as you article stated...
...false recommendations for unprepared black students for jobs in which they are bound to fail; the professors then are lost in dismay when the students fail and resent the lie. All these things and more, including white racism, whose unredeemed resilience may be read in the revival of the Klan, or scrawled above the nation's urinals, where it belongs...
Greensboro, N.C., 1981--The problems haven't gone away. The Klan is larger and richer than ever and they have proven that they can get away with murder. The enemies are becoming visible again--the radical right, an administration determined to oppress the Third World, the neo-conservatives. Again this country will have to be set straight. But it won't be done with hate, and the rhetoric of humanity will be more effective than the rhetoric of revolution. A new movement can begin to build, must begin to build, to continue where SNCC derailed. With any luck, it will...
...profound psychological density brought to America by its communications works in sometimes contradictory ways. The images of blacks on network TV, for example, can encourage tolerance by overriding local or regional bigotries; for all the talk of a resurrected Ku Klux Klan, it is only a vestige and parody of the huge, white-sheeted army that once lynched with impunity over much of the South. The more profound bigotries, of course, easily manage to survive the weak civilizing influences of an interracial sitcom. At the same tune, the new, closely worked symbolism of American nationality raises expectations, sharpening all social...
...failure to take even a cosmetic, symbolic stand. After national circulation of the Klitgaard study, Bok vigorously apologized for any hurt caused by its disclosure, but issued no disclaimer of the report's findings. And these local events took place against a national backdrop of a Ku Klux Klan revival, an increase in racial tension in the South, and the election of a president who stands as a potential threat to affirmative action and civil rights...