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...work too hard and Buchanan knows it. In a region known, in the first place, for its conservatism, Buchanan is running on the time-tested platform of stasis. He is taking his political cues from a distinctly 1960s brand of segregationist politician--from men like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. Buchanan's message throws Southerners back some 30 years. And alarmingly, he is coming through loud and clear...
...crime. To hear Young speak, he loosed a shower of gold over the city -- 1,000 new companies located there (300 from overseas), $70 billion invested ($11 billion from overseas), 700,000 new jobs created. Yet to critics, Atlanta should be his burden, not his boost. Lester Maddox, the clownish ex-Governor running for his old job, said to Young in a televised debate, "You ran Crime City." FBI statistics show a 50% increase in the crime rate during Young's eight years in office...
...Atlanta -- and his foes treat that as a threat. Young talks green while people are still thinking black. He moves about the state in his GMC van, speaking quietly about increased exports of Georgia pecans and carpets. He was accused of absenteeism during his years as mayor -- "Globetrotter Andy," Maddox calls him. But Young says he was using his international contacts to bring jobs into the state or find buyers for its products. "Last summer I took 30 small businessmen to Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados, and we came back with $134 million in contracts...
...their conclusion, Maddox and Allen reiterate their frustration at "the persistent level of racism and ethnocentric ignorance of so many whites." Racism and ethnocentric ignorance? This is after the authors have lumped 200 million people into "white America," stated that this white America's gravest fear is of being attacked by a crazed, degenerate Black man, and legitimized this "fear" by saying that "white society" perceives Black men as murderous, adulterous beasts. If we define racism as attributing individual characteristics and beliefs to a race as a whole, Maddox and Allen have all the "racism and ethnocentric ignorance" that they...
...Most of all," however, Maddox and Allen "are relieved. Relieved because white America did not receive a mandate to institutionalize its strong, latent prejudice." The assumption that a crime by a Black person would have indeed been a mandate for institutionalizing racism is a curious one. More than that, however, Maddox and Allen seem to have ignored the trend of U.S. history since 1865. America is moving away from its institutionalized prejudice, not toward it. The pace may vary, obstacles may still be in place, but the direction is unmistakeable. Progress can only be hampered, though, by the blind, irresponsible...