Word: racism
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...twentieth century, Southern whites wasted much of their energy on constructing and enforcing a system of apartheid. While black Southerners were creatively and subversively turning their misery into enduring American art forms such as the blues and jazz, most Southern whites were so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts...
...irrational hatred symbolized in the rebel flag is often all too palpable in Dixie today. Although Southern racism is sometimes masked, the extent to which raw and malicious discrimination still infects the South would shock most northerners...
...flyer signed by nine campus organizations called for an "official investigation" into "institutional racism" at the College...
...workshops on sexism, racism and violence so we can learn about these issues and show others," said Tabor of her activities with the Corps...
...that they like to impose rules on the rest of the country that they don't have to play by. The best example is the Vietnam War, which the Mandarins dreamed up and then didn't fight in. Lifers and Talents see the Mandarins as being selectively compassionate--about racism and sexism and international human rights, but not crime or falling wages--and then creating remedies that affect everybody but them. The idea that (in the words of President Reagan) "government is the problem" is a proxy way of voicing the suspicion that the Mandarins are going to use government...