Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October 9, "Boyd's Eye View" cartoon depicts John Harvard stuck to a tar-baby labeled "South Africa." A tar baby is a racist symbol out of Southern slave-culture as well as an insulting term for a Black person. Its use in the cartoon is both inappropriate and offensive, and I hope that The Crimson will print an apology. Yongjin...
Both Dartmouth and Stanford have, in recent years, discarded the Indian tag because of its racist overtones. Unfortunately, however, both schools decided that if they couldn't be called the Indians, they would choose really stupid nicknames: the Stanford Cardinal (without the "s," thank you) and the Dartmouth Big Green...
TOKYO--Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone made a "heartfelt apology" yesterday to all Americans for comments that many took as racist slurs against the intelligence of U.S. minorities...
...drug abuse and addiction abounded, the inevitable backlash set in, with a decidedly racist and xenophobic tinge. A 1910 federal survey reported that "cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee...
...problem that has taken up a lot of Bok's time lately is divestiture (Harvard's holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa: $416 million). More than once, students have jeered at him: "Hey, hey, Derek Bok, throw away your racist stock!" Bok strongly condemns apartheid, but he opposes total withdrawal. "The most obvious result of divestment," he wrote recently, "would be that the university would lose the influence it currently has to persuade companies to oppose apartheid." But students still demonstrate outside his office, and occasionally Bok stops to reason with them in his methodical fashion...