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...think [comments about 'fags'] come from hostility," Dermody says. "A simple reply, like, 'That means nigger to me--you're subconsciously equating gayness and badness and that alienates me,' on a one-to-one level can do so much...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Perceptions of Homophobia in Athletics | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...teachers thought Paul "the most remarkable boy I have ever taught, a perfect prince. Still, I can't forget that he is a Negro." Neither could the college football players who reviled him, or the secretary who warned the young law student, "I never take dictation from a nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Withered Roots | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Equality means understanding that the use of the words "faggot," "dyke" or "queer" as derogatory terms in casual coversation is just as offensive as the use of "nigger" or "kike...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Exploding the Myth of Tolerance | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

...most widely reported incident last spring, a non-student disk jockey was banned from the student-run radio station after he played "Run, Nigger, Run" during a series on old Bluegrass and Country & Western songs, Charney said...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: U Mich Considers Racism Class | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

...truth is that Hoover loathed blacks and detested their leaders, and so did many of his men. According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just Another Mississippi Whitewash | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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