Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the assertion of Detlev F. Vagts '49, chairman of the ACSR, that the group's more progressive decisions represent a new position demanding greater efforts from corporations to insure that their activities do not bolster the racist regime in South Africa, the Corporation's hard line remains unchanged...
Being a Black woman at Harvard compounded her sense of isolation. The first day she was here Wilkerson encountered the type of racist attitudes that in Shaker Heights "were kept quiet," While she waited outside the janitor's room to get the keys to her freshman dorm, another newly arrived freshman asked her if she was the janitor's assistant. "I was shocked--I expected race not to be an issue here," she says, adding that she quickly realized that although Harvard students were bright many "brought their racism with them...
...Justice Department contends that there is a logical distinction between the two groups of refugees. Says one official: "The standard is whether they would be persecuted, and very few Haitians can meet the standard." But the congressional Black Caucus charged last week that the U.S. policy is "racist," discriminating against Haitians. Supporters of the Haitians contend that Haiti's President Jean-Claude Duvalier is a right-wing dictator whose government is every bit as repressive as Castro's left-wing regime...
...stopped using the words Great White Brotherhood because of the racist and sexist implications," Mata, clad in simple white cloth pants and shirt with a crystal cross around her neck and sandals on her feet, explains. "Then people began to freak on the word hierarchy. But that's how everything run, it is the world government. There are students and teachers, lower and higher teachers, the high masters, the gods...
While the Corporation finished lunch inside, more than 150 protesters rallied outside 17 Quincy St. last Monday, chanting slogans reminiscent of last spring's protests. But this year the protest involved an added twist. The students charged that the University's South Africa policy is another facet of the racist and indifferent treatment Third World students receive at Harvard...