Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Review, which is not sanctioned by the college, has come under fire in the past for running allegedly racist articles, including one attack on affirmative action written in slang that Black students found insulting...
...percent of the Democratic primary votes that gave Harold Washington victory over his two white opponents--Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley--had barely subsided before conservative pundits in Chicago and elsewhere began equating the 80 percent ethnic-bloc vote that Blacks gave Washington with anti-democratic or racist behavior. This disingenuous equation of ethnic-bloc voting with anti-democratic behavior holds that ethnic of racial cohesion in electoral politics is intrinsically irrational, sanctioning emotional and atavistic styles of political behavior. Though there is a superficial plausibility to this sort of reasoning it doesn't really stand up very well...
Thus when Black Americans who are an ethnic-group-of-color, back a Black candidate as a means of advancing their political presence in city, state, and federal politics they are not committing a racist act--anymore, say, than are Jews who vote as a bloc to elect New York state's first Jewish-American governor (Herbert Lehman in 1932), or Irish who vote as a bloc to elect the first Irish-American governors of Illinois (Charles Deneen--1905, Edward Dunne--1913), or Boston Irish who vote as a bloc to elect the first Irish American governor and U.S. Senator...
Thus Afro-Americans' ethnic-bloc voting for Harold Washington in Chicago is not racist. What is racist, however, is the attitude that Black ethnic-bloc voting is illegitimate...
...than Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles, Greeks, and other ethnic groups. It is, alas, precisely this attitude toward Blacks that sparked the pathetic pandemonium in Chicago's Democratic party--a pandemonium skewed toward barring Chicago's Blacks from parity of political status with whites, and as such warrants the label "racist". When ethnic-bloc voting seeks to exclude groups from political and social parity it is then racist...