Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of Native American students at Harvard have complained to me about the use of the term, "Indian Giver" in your April 18, 1980 article "CARTER BANS ALL TRADE; WARNS MILITARY ACTION NEXT." The term "Indian Giver" is blatantly racist because the meaning it denotes has no basis in fact; mischaracterizes the history of the Federal-Indian relationship; and perpetuates a cruel stereotype. To the contrary, Native Americans are known for keeping their word and for living by their treaties...
...government intends to shape the future of the war-torn nation remains unclear. Mugabe has announced few specific policies, and according to several Cabinet members, will probably not do so fully for another six months. But there is no doubt about his most urgent priorities: removing all racist institutions, reconstructing the country's devastated rural areas and redressing the present 10-to-1 ratio between white and black incomes...
...students--Bok has increasingly come to symbolize what many label an increasingly amoral, conservative university. In the spring of 1978, when 3000 students marched in torchlight to demand Harvard's withdrawal from corporations doing business in South Africa, the crowd chanted, "Hey, hey, Derek Bok, Throw away your racist stock." The slogan, though rhetorical, aptly represented most students' perceptions: that Bok holds Harvard's values...
...scene for the parody of justice, your reporter serves up two preliminary cases involving Blacks. (To what anti-racist motives, incidentally, should one ascribe the constant spelling of "Blacks" with a majuscule and "whites" with a miniscule?) In the first case, Judge Elam, with what appears to be scrupulous impartiality, dismissed the charges as unproven and declared the accused innocent. The second case concerned the man who wore the grieved face, but Ms. Russell gives us no clue as to its meaning, unless she wishes us to infer that grief should bestow immunity from due process...
...comedy that demonstrated the "blatant racism" of the American judiciary constitutes poor thanks to the magistracy that cleared the defendant's record. Ms. Russell would have had a more vivid story if Judge Grabau had shown less respect for the rules of evidence and had played the racist role which journalists assign to white magistrates in their allegories of American jurisprudence. But I wonder if Mr. Ezera would have shared the reporter's excitement. John Bovey...