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...Reagan was not a saint. He traded illegal arms to the contra militia in Nicaragua. He increased the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. He supported an immoral, racist regime in South Africa and shamefully allowed tens of thousands of Americans to suffer from aids while his Administration turned its back on the epidemic. That's the Reagan I remember and will tell my children about. Brian Blank Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

Then there's the Jefferson of the Notes on the State of Virginia, who in the time-honored fashion--"I'm no racist but ..."--proclaimed whites' superior beauty and ventured his "suspicion" that although racial intermixture improved them, blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. Although he qualified his disparaging remarks because he hadn't observed blacks in their natural state of freedom in Africa, Jefferson's presentation leaves no doubt that he, like a typical white person of the 18th century, believed in white supremacy. Consider Abigail Adams, who upon seeing Othello expressed her "disgust and horror" at the thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: Was the Sage a Hypocrite? | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...Shofner recalls an incident at his sophomore initiation dinner during which all the punches to the club had to stand up and tell racist and sexist jokes. Shofner says he felt “disappointed” that young men were being trained to make sexist jokes in front of women who were present as servers at the dinner...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Female Students Punch All-Male Final Club | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...recently detained men on the street, usually well-dressed and talking on his cell phone. He says the arrests have made him think twice about the delicate balance between immigration and security. "You don't want to discriminate," he says. "You don't want to be racist about it. On the other hand, it is a scary world out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Terror Threat | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...Sports Radio did not ignore this incident; instead, it replayed the taunts on air and declared them “not racist,” then encouraged listeners to call in with their best anti-Chinese jokes. Meanwhile, the Miami Heat decided to celebrate Yao’s first game in Miami on December 16, 2002, by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies to the crowd...

Author: By Rena Xu, | Title: The Perils of Tolerating Discrimination | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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