Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular attention, suddenly had a field day with the methods the students used to try to drive their affirmative action message home. Before the summer was over, the Black law students found themselves labeled by the national media as "unwise," "rampant" with "banal ethnocentrism," "anti intellectual," and just plain "racist...
Such nativism isn't new. The racist Immigration Act of 1924, and the hysterically anti-Communist McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 both embodied the ugliest aspects of some Americans' attitude toward their nation's role as a world refuge. What is new is that, in the midst of the current xenophobia, two legislators are actually trying to provide a balanced, comprehensive and effective law to mitigate nativism by restoring order at America's frontiers...
...response to Letter Writer Ilene Matthews [Aug. 16], who "refuses to feel responsible" for the Haitian refugees: these people have come to the U.S. to escape poverty and starvation. Refusing them entry is selfish and racist. We have a moral responsibility to anyone fleeing from such terrible conditions...
Joseph Paul Franklin, 32, rarely has much to smile about. The self-proclaimed racist lives in virtual solitary confinement at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill., serving life terms for the 1980 slaying of two black joggers in Salt Lake City. Earlier this year, he says, he was stabbed 15 times by six black prisoners. But last week in a federal courtroom in South Bend, Ind., Franklin smiled at jurors and flashed a V-for-victory sign. They had just found him not guilty of violating the civil rights of former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan, who was wounded...
...best talent. Hubbard Hospital, Meharry's teaching facility, has been running into heavy debt. Meharry students have not enjoyed access to residencies at two tax-supported Nashville hospitals-a situation attributable to a number of factors, including some community practices and institutional arrangements surviving unexamined from the racist past...