Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have found many Southerners to be anti-intellectual, unchallenging, sexist and racist. I have struggled to feel comfortable with a society where racists threatened to blow up my grandparents' home because my grandfather helped desegregate the state university in the 1960s. I have struggled to accept a society where intelligent, aggressive women subvert their ambition and fire to be attractive to the men around them. I have struggled to cope with the fact that most of my high school classmates went on to perfectly good schools, joined perfectly good fraternities and sororities and are well on their way to alcoholism...
...seemed to be stirred only by the tide washing over coral reefs into palm-fringed lagoons. It was the first military takeover ever in the South Pacific. Fiji's democratic neighbors, including Australia and New Zealand, unanimously condemned Rabuka's actions. Even more disturbing was the coup's racist factor. Rabuka and his colleagues were expressing the resentment of ethnic Fijians against the recent political inroads of ethnic Indians. Bavadra's government, elected just last month, was the first with a majority of Indian politicians...
...while whites bought the blues "protest" theme, the opposite response from Blacks confirmed the alienation of blues from its traditional audience base. The blues message was antithetical to Black Power, for it brought political and economic oppression onto the level of personal squabbles, burying its roots in racist society...
...blacks and ten whites, half of whom have been victims of crime, will try to settle a question millions have debated since the December 1984 episode: Was the subway vigilante justified in defending himself against what he saw as an imminent attack, or was he a trigger-happy racist poised to strike at the slightest provocation...
...eradicate racism and intolerance, but also makes it that much harder for society to deal with the very real problems that such archaic attitudes present. Bigotry is a problem that is hard enough to address without having someone throw partisan politlcal baggage into the equation. Calling someone a "racist" because he has a different position on affirmative action (or South African divestment) is as unproductive and as intellectually stifling as calling him a "communist" because he doesn't support aid to Nicaraguan contras...