Word: racists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stubborn intellectual inferiority blacks exhibit. While not openly stating that black inferiority was inherent, he insinuated that unchangeable biological reasons were behind what he saw as the less-than-stellar achievements among Harvard's African-American students. Sadly, Mansfield's article is in line with today's racist tactics. Posing as learned men, many of today's leading academics preach the inferiority of blacks, with the state and federal governments serving as their audience...
...test. Since one author has a degree from Harvard, and the other was a professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat of the 19th century, where academics define the parameters of discussion and defend the racist thinking of their colleagues...
Herewith a radical proposal for breaking the impasse: revive the civil rights movement, which went into limbo long before some of its most important goals were accomplished, and aim it not only at racist whites but also at complacent middle-class blacks. All of us need a jolting reminder that integration's real purpose was not to produce Norman Rockwellish racial brotherhood. It was a strategy to ensure that black children, especially poor ones, would receive the same quality of instruction, textbooks and facilities that white children do. The genteel race mixing that goes on among the elite...
Most black people know that a perverse motivation leads cops to continually "mistake" them for criminals. Racially-motivated police misconduct affects black Americans from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills. And the Canadian cops who follow the racist example of some of America's police--who deserve to be called pigs--are perhaps more accurately described as Canadian bacon...
...sentiments in Peninsula were very racist and sexist," Tribble says. "And a lot of that was expressed in the attitudes and policies...