Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black Africa are talking to each other" and sees some easing of apartheid within South Africa. But the country has been racked by black protests, backed up by demonstrations in the U.S. American liberals and some South African blacks charge that the Reagan Administration is in effect supporting a racist government that is undertaking only cosmetic reforms aimed at strengthening rather than loosening apartheid...
...lashes out at his tormentors. Like most myths, there is something in the story line to satisfy almost all who read about it. Still, Goetz is not a clear-cut hero. Psychologically, he may have been punishing the four youths for his earlier mugging. He had made some racist comments in the past, and clearly used more force than the situation called...
...children, Goetz began operating his own company, Electrical Calibrations Laboratories, out of a sparsely furnished apartment on the fringe of Greenwich Village in 1976. Neighbors describe him as a quiet, humorless man whose efforts to rid the community of derelicts, muggers and drug dealers were marred by occasional racist outbursts...
...city is infected by white racist violence. Last month Auto Mechanic Spencer Goffer and his family moved into the Island, a white working-class neighborhood. The first night the Goffers spent in their new home, a mob of neighbors milled out front for six hours, shouting curses, throwing rocks through the windows and waving guns. The Goffers moved out the next day. In the same neighborhood, a Hispanic family's house was fire bombed on Thanksgiving. The same week, in a white neighborhood on the southwest side, a black family's house was set afire with a Molotov...
...with "Yankee" parents, so, from junior high school on I was able to see the significance of the growing struggle for equality in the South. I could recognize the injustice of separate, and always unequal, facilities--the two sets of water fountains and public restrooms--but they laid racist foundations in my young mind ones which, like all whites in this society. I have not yet fully eradicated. Hearing Dr. King on those two occasions did more than any other event of my youth to aid in that eradication...