Word: klux
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Imagine a television show so beyond the pale of good taste that Pat Buchanan, the Bob Jones University Faculty of Arts, and even some of the more tolerant branches of the Ku Klux Klan would condemn it. You’ve just imagined “Survivor: Jim Crow South.” Described as a dark cross between “Gone with the Wind” and “Remember the Titans,” this innovative program would try to evoke the feel of the Old South through athletic challenges designed to bring out the conflicts...
...March 10 and made available in full on the Kennedy School’s website March13, was pounced on almost immediately.The New York Sun published front-page stories about Walt and Mearsheimer every day of the next week. The Sun reported that a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David E. Duke, had called the working paper “a great step forward.” And in the pages of the Sun, Kennedy School lecturer Marvin Kalb said that the Walt and Mearsheimer article “clearly does not meet the academic standards of a Kennedy...
...black Americans: "Oxford Town" (about the shooting of Medgar Evers), "The Ballad of Hollis Brown", "Who Killed Davey Moore?" and "The Death of Emmett Till" ("This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man / That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan...
...Americans took 9/11 as Saudi. But the terrorists were individuals. They did not represent our government or our Saudi Arabia. We are 25 million people. Look, you have the Ku Klux Klan here. Do they represent America? These are extreme organizations. You will find them in any society...
...many ways liberal institutions have come a long way. However, it should not take, say, the Ku Klux Klan to rise to prominence once again on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in order for there to be a public acknowledgement that subtle and explicit racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are widespread, and sometimes violent, realities for minorities at liberal universities...