Word: klux
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...defined racism as discrimination, prejudice and hateful behavior, much like that of the Klu Klux Klan...
...number of such events. The thorniest issue was an allegation that Pratt spoke at a 1992 meeting in Estes Park, Colorado that was headlined by Pete Peters, leader of a group that its critics say supports violence to promote white supremacy. Others on the bill included former Ku Klux Klan leader and Aryan Nation official Louis Bream and Aryan Nations Founder Richard Butler. Buchanan stood by his manager, quickly calling a press conference where he relayed Pratt's denial of the allegations, and said he believed Pratt. "Buchanan will try to keep attention away from Pratt and focused...
...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...
...first 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...