Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this grotesque scene. Over the protests of Mr. Hakansson and his German companion, I disrupted his presentation and demanded that it be stopped. I take full responsibility for my actions and would repeat them even more strenuously if similar situations occur in the future. The presentation of such racist and repulsive films at Harvard University under the guise of scholarship is an abomination...
...Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that authorities consider them to be totally devoid of scholarly merit. Moreover, they are racist and violate every code of moral decency. Mr. Hakansson stated he "had been officially invited to present these films to members of the Harvard community by the Peabody Museum and biologist George Wald." I later shared my concerns about this subject with several of my colleagues...
...racist or sexist, Wallace queries, that Black women were stereotyped as "fat nannies or wanton sluts?" Is it racist or sexist, she asks, that Black men were portrayed as "sex-crazed work machines or impotent old fools...
...himself to some retaliation on that score by noting pointedly on Labor Day that Carter was campaigning in Tuscumbia, Ala., "the city that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan." Actually, Carter had denounced the Klan in his speech in Tuscumbia, which, anyway, was not the birthplace of the racist organization. Earlier, addressing a white audience in Mississippi, Reagan had spoken of "states' rights," a longtime code word for opposition to desegregation. He also had received, and quickly renounced, an unsolicited endorsement from one faction of the Klan...
...equal time. They may not have needed it, so thoroughly did reporters question Carter about his "mean" campaign assaults. "Obviously in the heat of a campaign there is some give-and-take on both sides," he said. He twice emphasized that he did not think his opponent was a racist. "The press seems obsessed with this issue," he said...