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...quoted as saying that blacks had "watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children." In a letter published in the same issue, Rooney expressed his distaste for homosexuality in blunt and ill-informed terms. Rooney denied making the racist remarks. But insiders say it was the letter -- which was sent without Burke's approval -- that was most responsible for the suspension...
What worries Jews and many non-Jewish Soviets is that such nationalistic ravings might gain support in a time of heightened ethnic tensions and economic uncertainty. In January a band of some 50 Pamyat supporters disrupted a meeting of liberal writers in Moscow, waving anti-Semitic banners and shouting racist slogans. One hooligan warned the crowd, "We have come this time with a megaphone -- but next time with a gun." On a video clip shown on state-run television, a protester shouted, "Neither the KGB nor the party can help you now. We will be masters of the country...
Source of Racist Thought...
...Nobody is genetically destined to be either oppressor or oppressed," Morales said, arguing that learned attitudes are the source of racist thought...
...other contexts, conservative American Presidents have argued that maintaining diplomatic relations need not constitute an endorsement of the powers that be or the political system of a country. The Reagan Administration justified its intensive diplomacy toward racist South Africa as "constructive engagement." Last year George Bush sent two high-level envoys to toast a Chinese leadership that had just slaughtered thousands of its citizens. The President explained that preserving U.S. leverage over future developments in that largest of Third World communist nations meant avoiding the temptation to "isolate" its government. Bush was properly criticized not for the principle...