Word: racists
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However, even though Gore is the Democratic candidate most likely to win votes in the South, he is far from being a racist, conservative good ol' boy. Like his father--former Senator Albert Gore, Sr., who, alone among all Southern senators, refused to sign the "Southern Manifesto" attacking "Brown v. Board of Education"--Gore has been a strong supporter of civil rights legislation and has vehemently criticized recent Administration attempts to gut the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action. Indeed, after Jackson, Gore is the top choice of several major civil rights groups. Gore has also sponsored and supported legislation...
That working-class unity crumbles when it comes to Jesse Jackson. "I really don't think it's a racist thing between Jesse and the whites, at least not here," observes the Sandwich King's white proprietor, Dewey Lawing, 60. "He's just too radical, and we don't trust him." A black machine operator in his late 30s takes a pragmatic approach to Jackson. "Don't think that we're such fools that we don't see the same faults in Jesse that white people see," he says. "But we're going to vote for him anyway. And then...
...request came after a group calling itself "Students for White Supremacy" posted racist flyers around the campus, said John O. Williams, president of the BSU. The flyers contained racial slurs such as "Darkies don't belong in classrooms, they belong hanging from trees...
...investigation conducted last year by the Civil Rights Commission at the request of the BSU revealed that there may be a single group behind the distribution of racist material at a number of colleges nationwide, Williams said...
...students accusing Thernstrom have not gone so far as to classify him as a racist. But the euphemism "racially insensitive" seems insufficient cause for the uproar; their actions indicate a feeling that he is more than merely insensitive. Insensitivity is a matter for discussion; racism is a matter for offense and complaint. Implications that someone is a racist should not be expressed in any situation without clear cause...