Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Germany too the treatment of Jews kept getting worse. The Nuremberg racial laws of 1935 deprived them of German citizenship and forbade them to marry or have sexual relations with "Aryans." In 1938 they were barred from practicing law or medicine or engaging in commerce. Along with such laws came all forms of discrimination -- signs barring them from grocery stores or drugstores or even whole towns -- and the constant threat of violence from any bad-tempered policeman, any unruly crowd...
...Last summer, for example, arsonists at the University of Mississippi torched the school's first on-campus black fraternity house; last spring four black women at Smith College received racist notes. In the face of such hostility, the inducements to enroll -- scholarships, minority-student organizations -- seem pale. "Overt racial incidents can have a real psychological effect, even if they don't happen to you," says John Jackson, 23, a black at the University of Texas at Austin...
When asked why it had delayed publication of the story, The Times said it would not be party to the demise of this Black mayor. The paper wanted no responsibilities for whatever racial conflicts might ensue if Bradley were to fall...
Furthermore, to assume that Black leaders are the only sources of racial harmony in urban areas completely simplifies the problem of bigotry. The Times' argument is claiming that the only reason why Watts doesn't burn again is because "they've got one of their own in the statehouse...
...white leaders. That many Black leaders are the victims of unfair accusations is a truism. To cry (or fear cries of) racism like some Pavlovian response because one dares to treat Black politicians primarily as office-holders--and secondarily as Blacks--dilutes the word "racist" and undermines attempts for racial objectivitiy in our political debates...