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...evening of May 31, 1921, a mob gathered at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Courthouse, threatening to lynch a young black man who worked shining shoes. He was accused of attacking a white woman who worked as an elevator operator. Rumors began to circulate in the city that a lynching was imminent. The proud black community, which was reading “radical” literature like The Crisis and talking about upholding the law against lynchers, decided to take a stand...
...reparations movement, to be sure, has won some scattered victories. In 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles signed a law providing $2.1 million to the survivors of a 1923 rampage by a white mob on the mostly black hamlet of Rosewood. The Oklahoma legislature is considering reparations for the survivors of a 1921 race riot in Tulsa in which as many as 300 people were murdered. California has enacted a law crafted by state senator Tom Hayden that will force insurance companies to disclose whether they issued policies that paid slave owners in the event of a slave's death...
...hard, even in a cynical town like Hollywood, to find people against such a cause, so I encounter quite a few stars. For the main part these were folks apparently not hip enough to be swooned over by the Vanity Fair mob, but whose presence this charity clearly cherished...
...markets are crying out for leadership, and with Tuesday's cut Greenspan stated with some plainness that he will not be providing any. There is high-minded talk of the "moral hazard" - certainly the Fed cannot come to the rescue every time the investing mob makes a bad group bet - and lower talk about A Man and His Ego. Perhaps he is prodding George W. Bush to put his tax cut where his mouth is when it comes to stimulating the "sputtering" economy the President talks so much about...
Congratulations for a principled stand, but also for your brilliant strategy in upholding the dignity and professionalism of The Crimson. Horowitz has embarassed a number of campus papers that were afraid to publish his controversial views or that capitulated to mob rule by apologizing for having run the ad. The Crimson should be proud of its decision...