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...first feelings when I saw him, he sort of looked like a Ku Klux Klan or a skin-head with hair." Armanda Cooley, forewoman of the O.J. Simpson jury, describing how she felt upon first seeing Mark Fuhrman...
...ultimately lead to harm to society. But the speech and harm are distinct. American democracy's shining beacon has been the tolerance of views that many consider abhorrent and dangerous. Communists may freely run for office. Nazis may march through a city with a large Jewish population. The Klan may advocate the repeal of civil rights statutes. Anything else is thought control. At the heart of the First Amendment is the belief that, except in the rare circumstances when speech will demonstrably cause immediate physical harm, it is simply impossible to draw a line...
...Earl Vaughn Jr., 41, who works in New York City as a manager for the transportation system, wasn't sure he would attend. Then he read a newspaper report in which black conservative Congressman Gary Franks, a Republican from Connecticut, compared the Million Man March to a Ku Klux Klan rally. It made Vaughn so angry, he jumped into his Lexus Sunday night and drove to Washington. Terry Bankston, director of fund development for the National Black MBA Association in Chicago, shares Vaughn's attitude about the pressure to repudiate Farrakhan. "Denouncing people is not the best...
Marriah Star's editorial ("A Lack of Common Ground," Oct. 25) is so replete with contradictions and half-truths that we are almost reluctant to dignify it with a response. As if equating the Harvard Black Students Association with the Ku Klux Klan were not enough to completely discredit his argument, Star goes on to fill his lengthy article with multiple inane, illogical assertions. He begins by stating that we, as Americans, are "stuck in the tradition...of judging other people by their color." He later contends in his conclusion that "racism merely pervades the outer fringes of American society...
...will never get rid of racism in politically marginal groups, such as Neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads, or the Nation of Islam and the Black Student Association for that matter. Such groups will always see America as a mosaic in which one color matters more than all the rest, instead of a solid unified sculpture. The Civil Rights movement has achieved a lot, but groups such as these hold it back from realizing its true potential...