Word: klan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gordon '83, president of the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League (FSYL), a socialist organization, said the verdict calls for "broadbased opposition to the Klan," adding that the FSYL is sponsoring a "Smash the Klan" rally tonight at Phillips Brooks House...
...will argue that Mr. Gershman's attack (like the Robert Klitgaard report now in preparation by Harvard University) is nothing more than another ideological onslaught which white America is now making against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon. Such attacks, seek to pit Black people against other Black people (as the Klitgaard Report attempts to pit progressive Black people against progressive Jewish people) for the sake of the dominant white oppressor class...
...find it ironic, in the land of battered wives, the Ku Klux Klan, and the neutron bomb, that gay people are called immoral and unnatural. If anything is "deviant", it is the aggressive male machismo which dominates our society...
...King Jr.'s onetime righthand man, and the endorsement of the Rev. Hosea Williams, another black civil rights activist of the '60s. But neither Abernathy nor Williams is regarded today as a major leader by blacks. Scoffed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, a black: "When the Ku Klux Klan, Abernathy and Williams agree on the same candidate for President, that wins first prize for weird coalition of the year...
Reagan hastens to add that he is not proposing to do away with drivers' licenses, Social Security or withholding taxes. He acknowledges that his rosy evocations of the past are selective, that blacks, for instance, were not exactly free (in fact, the Klan was active in Dixon during his youth). He even maintains, "I don't want to go back to the so-called simple life. It wasn't simple at all." But he says that only after he has been backed into the corner that is reality. On the stump, the message is unadorned...