Word: racists
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President Bok and others who feel there are benefits to American investment in South Africa consistently assume fundamental change may not happen, though it is possible, they think, for South Africa to become a just society through piecemeal, apolitical economic change. Both assumptions are false. No racist society has ever become non-racist through economic growth. In South Africa, economic growth has accompanied the growth of racial oppression. In South Africa, there is no non-racist, and hence non-political economic world, and there never will be until there is political change. South Africa will change, as Rhodesia, Mozambique...
Harvard has a minor role in the tragedy of South Africa, but it is a role we cannot walk away from. We can, in a small but important way, help to see to it that the transition to a non-racist society in South Africa is as painless as possible, that the bloodshed is minimized. The success of the divestiture movement at Harvard has made it possible for Harvard to do something to increase the chance of peaceful change in South Africa...
...seems curious that many accept the common wisdom that the Cambridge police force is generally racist and that its officers often harass minorities indiscriminately, but dismiss suggestions that the Harvard police could share the same attitudes and prejudices. As a rule, HUPD attracts the same type of person that would join the Cambridge force; generally local Massachusetts residents of working class origins who may be angered by seeing middle and lower income Blacks receiving opportunities that their children never will...
WHILE THE EXPLICITLY racist terms of this ancient Georgia law may seem shocking, recent statistical studies on the administration of the death penalty in certain southern states now seem to indicate that our present system of capital punishment bears, in some senses, a remarkable resemblance to the death penalties of the old South...
...study based upon the race of the victim. Among Black offenders in Texas, for example, those whose victims were white were 87 times more likely to receive a death sentence than those whose victims were Black. From all this, according to Bowers and Pierce, emerges "a single underlying racist tenet: that white lives are worth more than Black lives...