Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faculty critics of the request argued that honoring those racist rebels would be a slap in the face to Blacks and to dead Union soldiers. For many, 123 years after Lee's surrender, the Civil War scars still remain. And maybe they should...
...publicity has been orchestrated by Brawley Lawyers Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason, veterans of New York City's race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...
Back in 1981, the executive director of the NAACP, Benjamin Hooks, warned Blacks to brace themselves for hard times similar to those faced during Reconstruction, saying that Reagan "could end up putting Black folks in a worse position than if a racist were in the White House." This has turned out to be true, but the damage shouldn't be irrevocable. The reversal of Reagan's veto indicates that his wholesale neglect of minority concerns is no longer acceptable to this country...
Cambridge City Councillor David E. Sullivan said he strongly endorses the bill. "Public money should be used in a socially responsible way," he said. "If we support the racist regime in South Africa, the opposite is true...
State and federal authorities are currently investigating a series of threatening phone calls directed at members of gay and anti-racist groups at the University of Michigan...