Word: racists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that raged through college campuses a few years ago, but it has undergone a technological metamorphosis. The current issue is slightly different from its recent cousin. Whereas with verbal speech, the controversy truly concerned only the given campus, Internet hate is accessible the world over. By providing access to racist and anti-Semitic web sites, universities are allowing such material to reach not only their own students but users all over the globe...
...fellowship both divided and united by the memory of its painful past and thus enabled to teach the future by recalling that past, others have seen a dastardly plot to rehabilitate the lost cause of the south, or to affirm in the present the subtle and not-so-subtle racist ideology of a society that has not yet reconciled itself to its citizens of color. This present discourse is complicated by the fact that while it would appear to be about unhealed wounds between the north and the south, it is really but another chapter in our society's sordid...
...national resolution decrees that "NOW commits itself to intense internal examination of its own residual racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders in NOW intimidating the white leaders,'' says Michigan NOW member Tracy Ann Martin. "I'm not afraid of being called a racist. My credentials go back too far.'' Asks Toni Carabillo, national vice president of the Feminist Majority, who has been active in NOW since 1967: "Is women's rights the priority issue for the N.A.A.C.P.? No, nor should it be. NOW is losing its focus as the pre-eminent organization...
...created the parody to illuminate the racist implications of the police's hurtfully ambiguous poster featuring a subject whose only distinguishing details were absurdly broad," the group, which calls itself Harvard Undergraduates Pointing out Discrimination, wrote in an open letter to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson...
...brief telephone interview yesterday, Chief Johnson defended the original poster, denied that it was racist and dismissed the group's letter as "kind of stupid...