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...find it ironic, in the land of battered wives, the Ku Klux Klan, and the neutron bomb, that gay people are called immoral and unnatural. If anything is "deviant", it is the aggressive male machismo which dominates our society...
...Luther King Jr.'s onetime righthand man, and the endorsement of the Rev. Hosea Williams, another black civil rights activist of the '60s. But neither Abernathy nor Williams is regarded today as a major leader by blacks. Scoffed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, a black: "When the Ku Klux Klan, Abernathy and Williams agree on the same candidate for President, that wins first prize for weird coalition of the year...
Amnesty International is having some success in liberating victims of torture by releasing visual material of atrocities. The pathological activities of Ku Klux Klan against black people has been documented in films and "explicit photographic materials." (Alex Haley's TV Series "Roots" also shows violence against women.) According to Dr. Counter's "unwritten rule," such topics are "not worthy of scientific attention and go far beyond the realms of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings." Does the Black Students' Association agree...
True, Reagan and Anderson are not men of unassailable political virtue. Reagan tried to link Carter with the Ku Klux Klan, and his exaggerations of the state of the world have at times transcended reality. But not even the Democrats suggest that Reagan is mean. Slow, maybe, but nice. Anderson has some of Carter's righteous evangelical fervor, which can be disturbing, but it has not been cruel. He has a perfect right to take a run at the brass ring...
...live as a black man in the American South (the subject of his book Black Like Me, 1961). He speaks of violent beatings and physical suffering, and then discards self-pity by quoting a friend's dying words: "Ask Griffin if he can top this." A former Ku Klux Klan executive finds himself organizing workers of every hue in a North Carolina union. "People say: 'That's an impossible dream. You sound like Martin Luther King' . . . I don't think it's an impossible dream. It's happened in my life." A high...