Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small town with "no main roads" and where the only industry is peanut farming, Leary is a community of "men who hunt on land that their grandfathers had hunted on--it's kind of Faulknerian." The backwoods town is a "very racist kind of society," where Blacks until 15 years ago "were kept in a kind of serfdom by a family that kind of ruled them...
...North." As evidence, he points out that his native Atlanta features a Black mayor and a Black chief of police, and recalls that former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, who is also Black, hails from Atlanta, too. After several weeks in Boston, he believes that the Hub "is as racist a place as you'll find anywhere...
...runoff. He was in no mood for it. "I went on the radio," Helms says, "telling folks that supporters ought to go out to his house and encourage him." Several hundred did, and Smith won the second election. Helms disclaims any part in the deceits and hysterical racist broadsides undertaken on Smith's behalf. "The liberals are trying to get me," Helms says. "I had nothing to do with the campaign." Affirms Bailey?almost: "I don't think Jesse wrote a damn thing for that campaign...
...embarrassed Gerald Ford by insisting that the President meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.* This year he delayed (but so far not once prevented) the confirmation of six suspect Reagan bureaucrats. Alone he voted against a bill to counter the 1977 Arab boycott of Israel. He promotes South Africa's racist regime with gusto. After the fall of South Viet Nam, Helms introduced a bill that would make all refugee aid private, and clipped a check for $1,000 to his proposal. Fighting Nelson Rockefeller's confirmation as Vice President in 1974, Helms declared...
...person when he was hospitalized for removal of a kidney stone, also lamented a rise in "antiSemitic episodes" and the growing visibility of the Ku Klux Klan. The New Right, he said, has "licensed a new meanness of spirit in our land, a resurgent bigotry that manifests itself in racist and discriminatory postures; in threats of political retaliation; in injunctions to censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny the legitimacy of differentness ... whatever view does not conform...