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...force can now stop or even delay our emancipation from the pain and the shame of our racist past...
...comments ignited a storm of criticism and investigation. Snapped the Rev. Edward Verner, head of a black ministers' organization in Newark: "To suggest that the black vote or the black church is up for sale is a racist lie." The Justice Department and the state attorney general began investigations of possible criminal and civil rights violations, while Democratic leaders went to court seeking to have Whitman's victory nullified. Whitman initially denounced Rollins' assertion as "blatantly untrue" but late in the week said she would consider resigning if it was proved that the payoffs had been made and changed...
...been eight years since Harry Chen, themanager of Chef Chow's on Church St., left Beijingin large part, he says, "to make a buck." The MSGscare is just one of many ways a racist countryhas conspired-- unsuccessfully, he addspointedly--to undermine Chinese businesses...
None of these arguments are explicitly racist (though some come close). All of them contain an element of legitimate concern, though the concerns are generally answerable. But a subtle disdain for Mexicans seems to underlie Perot's objections...
Some of Perot's arguments against NAFTA appeal blatantly to U.S. xenophobia, with more subtle tugs at racist strings. For example, he warns that Asian and European nations are eager to take advantage of NAFTA by investing in Mexico and sneaking their products across the tariff-free U.S.-Mexico border into the United States--a foreign invasion scenario with ominous undertones of a commercial Pearl Harbor...