Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African law recognizes only one plea for draft exemption: religious pacifism. In July a Johannesburg student, David Bruce, 25, took his case to court, becoming the first draftee to argue that he could not enter the army because it upheld an illegal racist system. Bruce was sentenced to six years. Two weeks later, 142 university graduates and students declared that they would refuse to accept induction or, if they had already served their initial two years, to report for further active duty. The End Conscription Campaign, which advocates working in hospitals and performing other types of community service...
...Congressional Black Caucus, which represents 23 lawmakers, last week urged Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to convene a meeting of Japanese executives to end "the negative stereotypic representations of black Americans once and for all." Declared Congressman Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat: "We're talking about a general racist attitude. They are now world leaders. They are going to have to learn that the whole world is not Japanese...
Scholars from Japan suggest that their countrymen are not intentionally racist but are insensitive toward other peoples because of centuries of homogeneous and isolated development. "They have little social experience in dealing with different races," explains Nagayo Homma, a professor of American studies at the University of Tokyo. "They know about Martin Luther King and civil rights, but it's in an abstract context." If that is the situation, it is not surprising that stereotypes abound -- and not just about blacks: while whites generally are considered by Japanese to be advanced and "civilized," fellow Asians and others are sometimes seen...
...feeling is that that was a politicaldecision motivated by other than the educationalinterests of this institution. I think we got theshaft," Loney said. "I think that, to a greatextent, it seems that the problems of thisinstitution are inherent in the racist thinking inour society...
...heard that the Almighty opposes sanctions against the racist South African regime, opposes the Equal Rights Amemdment and opposes a tax increase...