Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan added a taint of anti-Semitism to Jesse Jackson's 1984 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, many black leaders seethed--but in silence. No longer. After Farrakhan laced a + speech in Los Angeles last month with racist remarks, Mayor Tom Bradley condemned the Black Muslim's "dangerous" anti-Semitism and said he and the minister were "poles apart." Before Farrakhan was to speak this week in Madison Square Garden, a coalition of the city's black and Jewish leaders denounced him. Said black City Clerk David Dinkins: "When (Farrakhan's) opinions express...
Farrakhan has made some friends too. In Los Angeles, Thomas Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who heads a racist group called the White American Political Association, attended Farrakhan's speech and kicked in a $100 donation. Metzger, a self-described white separatist, likes some of Farrakhan's ideas, but says, "I don't see myself moving any closer to him since that would defy logic...
Local union leaders said yesterday that Coors was racist and anti-labor, saying that the beer company lobbied against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and has violated the Equal Employment Opportunity...
...trying to send the message that Easterners do not approve of the Coors Company policy," Grossman said. This boycott is simply to hurt Coors economically and put them out of business, because they have been so racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-union...
...know there are American investments in South Africa, and those companies stand symbolically as tacit U.S. support for apartheid. They know America is doing very little to help them end apartheid. Divestment by Harvard would carry far, ring clear that some Americans do not favor doing business in a racist country once it became clear that those businesses were doing very little to ameliorate apartheid's burden...