Word: klux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political significance of the act should also be taken into account. Today minorities see many of the gains made as a result of the 1960s protests being eroded. The Ku Klux Klan's membership is growing and affirmative action programs are being substantially questioned. Social and economic programs which have traditionally benefitted Blacks are being severely cut back. And recent incidences of violence directed at Blacks have also added to their worries. There is a real and palpable fear in minority communities that the government is indifferent to their needs...
...huddled masses, it is feared, are robbing native Americans of jobs, straining community services and provoking new excesses of bigotry and xenophobia across the U.S. In Texas, for instance, Vietnamese refugees operating shrimp boats in Galveston Bay have stirred resentment among local fishermen and received threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Three of the refugees' boats have caught fire; though arson is suspected, no arrests have been made...
...sounded like a sitcom version of The Dogs of War, after rewrites by V.S. Naipaul and Woody Allen. Even the feds joked about a "Bayou of Pigs." Ten men, mostly Southerners and mostly Ku Klux Klan members, were arrested last week by federal agents at a marina near New Orleans and charged with organizing an expedition against a friendly nation...
Speakers representing Black and gaylesbian groups praised their followers' courage for joining the anti-war movement and compared the Reagan administration to the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party and the Moral Majority...
...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...