Word: racists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Price Cobbs argued that racism forced blacks to make certain social adaptations, becoming mistrustful and suspicious of outsiders. That, say Ferguson's lawyers, combined with a mental disorder, triggered their client's attack -- and should mitigate whatever punishment is meted out to him. Says Kuby: "Being exposed to racist treatment over a long period of time drove Ferguson to violence." Critics say arguments based on black rage are troubling because, unlike battered women who kill their abusive husbands, defendants in such cases would not need to produce a record of specific life- threatening conditions -- just social and environmental causes. "Crime...
...spite of the fact that he made this commendable contribution, it was a foregone conclusion that his party was going to disappear. After the next five years, I don't think anybody will ever hear of the National Party. He applied dirty-trick tactics in this campaign. Very dirty, racist tactics. Nevertheless we beat them. But Mr. De Klerk has made a contribution. Without him, we could not have made this progress. It would have been a series of conflicts and turmoil that would have further destroyed our economy. By his cooperation we avoided that catastrophe...
Police officers should receive better training in suspect identification and sensitivity toward minorities. They should be strictly instructed that any racist behavior will be severely punished. Harvard should also seek to hire more minority police officers, and officers with records of discriminatory conduct should be fired...
...election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The long, resolute march of democracy has caused deepening divisions within the white right. "The bombing campaign," says Wim Booyse, a political consultant in Pretoria, amounts to "a struggle for control of the heart of the right wing...
...bombs that went off in Johannesburg, however, are proof that a few hate- filled racist groups are capable of carrying out sabotage and murder for the foreseeable future. The A.W.B.-aligned Volksfront is planning acts of & civil disobedience aimed at provoking confrontations with government security forces. Many South Africans may think it fitting if the A.N.C. chooses to use some of the same methods to crack down on the right that the apartheid government used against its freedom fighters for the past 46 years...