Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has made a surprisingly poor target. President Reagan has not been playing George Wallace, hurling racist slurs, and chanting "segregation forever." While David Stockman's book reveals some racist attitudes at the White House, and the press worried for a while that Reagan was going to "turn back the clock" on civil rights, the Reagan Administration has taken a pretty low-key posture on civil rights...
...Supreme Court overturns the Runyon decision, victims of racial discrimination simply won't have the same recourse to law that they have enjoyed for the past 10 years. It's one thing for sporadic racist attacks to occur in a country where the government is devoted to the protection of minorities. It's another thing altogether for the Supreme Court, a governmental check meant to protect the rights of minorities, to be stripping away the rights of minorities to protect themselves against job discrimination. Here the Reagan Administration's true colors shine clear...
...academic index is a racist rule, whether it was intended to be one or not," Cingiser says. "It has minimized the number of Black student-athletes who can get into Ivy League schools...
...Harvard Crimson and the Harvard community rightfully condemn those who espouse racist or sexist points of view. Why then, should Ms. Glasser feel no remorse in publishing her sexist theories of male socialization? Why should groups of men getting together and enjoying each other's company automatically and regularly be held up for ridicule? The answer to those questions could help to explain the poor quality of the present dialogue between the sexes on campus. I find intolerance of any kind offensive and I urge The Crimson to aspire to a higher journalistic standard. Hugh Taylor...
...professor takes pains to point out that Joseph's views betray "neo-racism," which "is essentially different from old-racism." In Kilson's full explanation, "neo-racism" is "a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some white students--mainly white-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and while this neo-racism is essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country...