Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other council members, four of whom are black, has been indicted on charges of accepting kickbacks from local carnival owners in exchange for city permits to operate. Forbes admits taking $4,000 from them but maintains that he gave the money to charity. Fearing that the indictment might inflame racial tensions in the city, white political leaders and businessmen quickly rallied behind Forbes and began raising money for his defense...
Some scientists used Burt's evidence to support theories that IQ inheritance can be traced along social and racial lines. Burt himself never dealt with the possible racial implications of his work...
...about being black. "The very hardest kind of opponent for a black candidate," Thomas Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, observes, "is a liberal white who is careful not to bring any racism into the campaign." Pettigrew, a one-time Brooke advisor, says the Senator runs relatively non-racial campaigns--he's not comfortable with the role of "the black Senator" that has been thrust upon him. Only when he fell sharply in the polls in his race against Peabody in 1966 did he give a talk about "being black--it wasn't blatant but the liberals loved...
...abysmal" voting record. Charged Seith: "He speaks out of both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz's resignation...
...long been liberal dogma that to eliminate crime, society must eliminate the causes: poverty and racial inequality. But even as the U.S. was pouring billions into social welfare programs, and systematically attacking discrimination, during the '60s and early '70s, violent crime was booming. Since 1960 the rate of robbery, murder and rape has almost tripled. Lately it has become fashionable to target the culprits, not the causes?simply to catch criminals and lock them...