Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoided, or corrected. Thus the question is what can be corrected--where the line should be drawn. I do not know what Professor Thernstrom's underlying attitudes, views or intentions are, nor have we discussed these issues. That is why I do not charge that he is a racist. But his attitudes and views may or may not be relevant to the racial insensitivity of his remarks...
...majority's freedom of expression is greater than that of the minority. Whites control the American power structure, thus, they can listen to discussions on apartheid or race relations without feeling threatened. But in similar discussions, Blacks cannot divorce their personal lives from politics or racial theory, because racist sentiment attempts to deny their daily lives and questions their validity as human beings...
...professor makes comments which appear racist to any degree, students--whether or not they belong to the offended minority--have a right to take issue with him. However, there is something dangerous about this particular case because none of Thernstrom's statements throughout the course warranted this extreme reaction. Throughout the semester, he fulfilled his roles as teacher and scholar by fairly presenting the full range of viewpoints on race relations in America...
...Grambling-educated Williams dutifully reported to the worst expansion franchise in pro football history, the 2-26 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When two years later he lifted the Bucs to within a game of a Super Bowl, but no nearer, his reward was a rotten watermelon gift- wrapped by a racist fan. For peace as much as money, he eventually jumped to another league. When it folded in 1986, only Washington held out a job. At 32, five years older than Elway, Williams had been standing behind Jay Schroeder for a year and a half when Schroeder faltered in November...
...racist taunting of Agent Donald Rochon was limited to the bureau's Omaha and Chicago offices, but the domestic surveillance was nationwide, involving 52 of the FBI's 59 field offices. The investigation started in 1981 as a probe of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, an organization sympathetic to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. It soon grew much broader. Some 1,200 pages of FBI documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a lawyers' group critical of Administration policy. The documents show that the investigation eventually touched...