Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even as two FBI agents visited the mayor at his City Hall office yesterday, more than 140 of his supporters rallied outside. They accused the Cambridge Chronicle, a weekly newspaper that has reported extensively on how Reeves spends city money, of racism and homophobia...
...seems to me that the twins of both racism and homophobia are here," Reeves said...
...That is unequivocally untrue," Breneman said. "And just as Mayor Reeves and many of his supporters are outraged, I am equally outraged that the mayor could accuse us of anything even remotely related to racism...
Maybe not. In this week's issue of the New Republic, which includes a Murray-Herrnstein article that summarizes their views, an accompanying roundup of their critics describes the theories of the two men as "indecent, philosophically shabby and politically ugly," and as "pseudoscientific racism." Racism? asks Murray. "I am absolutely baffled by the overwhelming tendency of people to say we are pushing the genetic explanation," he says. "We are staying smack dab in the middle of the scientific road regarding nature and nurture. For us to say that IQ is 60% heritable actually gives us more problems with people...
Maqubela, who is also South African, provided a nurturing environment which sheltered him from racism, Ntshanga says...