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With more and more offenses committed each year by the Ku Klux Klan, skinhead toughs, neo-Nazis and various other hate groups, civil rights advocates were heartened last week when President Bush signed a law authorizing the Justice Department to keep track of crimes motivated by racial, religious or sexual prejudice...
...Thought Police for muzzling the free exchange of ideas, however provocative or unfashionable. Many professors charge that the bans invite misinterpretation and self- censorship. Last May, for example, a Brown art professor canceled a screening of The Birth of a Nation, the D.W. Griffith classic about the Ku Klux Klan, because the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. opposed...
...Confederate flag was first and foremost the symbol of the country which sought to keep Blacks enslaved. Within decades of Emancipation, the Stars and Bars was deliberately adopted as a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. To this day, people associate this flag with the Klan and the "cracker"--the bigoted poor white. Although one can find the Stars and Bars in such mundane places as state flags, school mascots and even Scout uniforms, it is also a warning to Blacks...
...made by African Americans. Such accusations are all the more damning because Republicans, whose veiled appeals to anti-black prejudice have helped win five out of the last six presidential elections, only recently confronted a similar problem and appeared to deal with it firmly. Last year, after former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was elected to the Louisiana state legislature as a Republican, G.O.P. Chairman Lee Atwater denounced him and read him out of the party...
This is the South I know and love. All symbols stand for many things, some of which are amoral. I am embarrassed every time I see fanatical groups like the Ku Klux Klan waving the Confederate flag. This perverse element is the proverbial exception to the rule and does promote racism...