Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Temple's head basketball coach, John Chaney, called the NCAA a "racist organization." Dale Brown, head basketball coach at Louisiana State, said, "What they're saying is, 'We have a colored fountain here, a white fountain there. We'll allow you to drink out of the white fountain if you pass this test...
...world of his movie work in Mississippi. He and co-producer Robert Colesberry stalked 300 towns as likely locations, with the director impishly yelling, "Alabama Burning?" "Georgia Burning?" "Arkansas Burning?" But he selected Mississippi -- to the delight of the state film commission, which was willing to display its old racist scowl in implicit contrast to its fresh new face of many colors...
None of these facts are in dispute or particularly difficult to come by, but the makers of Mississippi Burning, in their pursuit of a box-office smash, chose to ignore them. In the process, they have not only turned history inside out but have also lent support to a racist myth. Says Seth Cagin, co-author of We Are Not Afraid, a rigorous account of the Philadelphia murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty...
CRITICS have suggested that Derwinski is so staunchly anti-communist that he willingly ignores anti-Semitic and fascist, as well as racist, tendencies in other anti-communists. Such a practice, if continued in the Veterans Affairs Department, could leave World War II veterans wondering whose side he really takes...
...Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "In some countries there may be a need to set a goal of one child per family." That is a daunting challenge. During the past decade, many of the world's poor nations condemned the notion of family planning as an imperialist and racist scheme touted by the developed world. Yet today virtually all Third World countries are committed to limiting population growth...