Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the Democratic convention, Atwater tossed out a racist two-fer, joking that Dukakis' choice of a running mate would be either Horton or Jesse Jackson...
Bush heatedly denied that his attacks on Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough program had racist overtones for citing the case of Willie Horton Jr., who is Black. Horton, a convicted murderer, brutalized a Maryland couple after escaping, but Bush said his commercial "didn't have any reference to his race and no picture...
...major challenge for social policy in the next decade will be to decouple the images of poverty and Blacks, so that politicians who propose progressive changes in social policy aren't defeated by racist hysteria. The facts must be emphasized: twice as many whites are poor as Blacks, and more whites receive Assistance to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits, what is commonly known as "welfare...
...Current Affair, drawing good ratings on 125 stations, goes for the gut each night with stories on crime and celebrity scandal. Typical subjects on Fox's The Reporters, a tabloid version of 60 Minutes, range from a grandmother who tracked down the alleged killer of her daughter to racist youths known as skinheads, in a report titled "Shaved and Dangerous...
Kahane personifies the most zealous strand in Israeli politics. This week the high court will decide whether his ultra-extremist Kach Party can be banned from the ballot under a controversial new law that excludes parties deemed racist or antidemocratic. But in a campaign marked by mounting anger and violence, more and more voters are deciding that the proliferating splinter parties on both the extreme right and left offer something irresistible: a clear-cut, dramatic solution to the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising...