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...commission also found that racist, sexist and homophobic statements appeared regularly in the messages officers typed to one another on their patrol-car computer systems. "I would love to drive down Slauson ((a black ( area)) with a flame thrower . . . We would have a barbecue," said one. "U won't believe this," said another. "That female call again said susp((ect)) returned . . . I'll check it out then I'm going to stick my baton...
...sort of walk-along valet. At private Baltusrol, new members put up $25,000 as an initiation fee, plus a $5,250 bond and $3,900 yearly dues. In times gone by, those economic facts alone might have barred most blacks. But, just in case, the sport had overtly racist rules and practices. Blacks did not play in the elite Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga., for 41 years. The phrase "Caucasian race only" was part of the P.G.A.'s eligibility rules until...
...such assumptions. However, the desire to meet minority concerns has also led to such skewing practices as "race norming," the comparison of test scores only within minority groups rather than across the board. That can lead to a subtle undermining of minority achievement. It is, indeed, demeaning and even racist to suggest that blacks cannot or should not be held to the same achievement standards as whites...
...traveled through the South, Marshall was routinely threatened. More than once he found himself facing a white racist with a gun. Undaunted, Marshall and his team laid the legal groundwork for their victory in Brown. Working again with Houston and other civil rights lawyers, Marshall had to convince the court that the 14th Amendment would not allow segregation. His problem was the court's long-held position that separate but equal facilities were constitutional. "What they set out to do was demonstrate that there was no such thing as equality with separation -- that the very act of separation stigmatized individuals...
Thernstrom says that he was labeled a racist because his use of historical narratives introduced viewpoints that ran counter to the liberal consensus. Thernstrom--who had been reading from slave-owners' journals--says that his personal defense of his teaching practices can never dispel the stigma of having been called a racist...