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Ashcroft defenders say it was this decision that swung moderate Republicans against White and led them to reject him for the federal court. They dispute the charge that Ashcroft is a racist, noting that as Missouri Governor he appointed the first African-American judge to the court of appeals and signed into law the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. But he also accepted an honorary degree in 1999 from Bob Jones University, which until recently forbade interracial dating, and defended Confederate leaders as "patriots" in Southern Partisan magazine, a pro-Confederacy publication that he praised for helping...
...1980s, Ashcroft persuaded the Reagan Administration to oppose school-desegregation plans in St. Louis, then used the issue to win the governorship in 1984. Since his election to the Senate in 1994, Ashcroft has consistently appealed to the right wing of his party, even when his approach risked appearing racist. He fought unsuccessfully against the confirmation of David Satcher, a distinguished black physician, as surgeon general, because Satcher opposes a ban on late-term abortions. In 1998 Ashcroft told the neo-segregationist magazine Southern Partisan that Confederate war heroes were "patriots." In 1999 he accepted an honorary degree from South...
...underlying contention of the Republicans in this was that the Democrats' problems were their own fault. Theresa LaPore was a Democrat. The counties with the Votomatics were Democratic counties teeming with apparently mistake-prone Democratic voters. And the Democrats are complaining about how lousy - and racist - the system...
Hussein's most egregious error, however, is his inflammatory assertion that American support for Israel stems from a racist understanding of Middle East ethnicity that "dehumanizes" the Palestinian people. This false accusation is an insult to all of us who have suffered from racism and other forms of ethnic and religious hatred in our nation. Americans support Israel for a number of different reasons. I suspect, however, that primary among them is the fact that despite incredible overtures for peace by Israel, the Palestinians have responded with orchestrated and fatal terror attacks on Israeli citizens and diplomatic statements that have...
...about 11 a.m. yesterday, the students outside had a run-in with an unnamed Tufts student who tried to disrupt the action. According to Kerivan the individual shouted racist and homophobic slurs...