Word: racists
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...African American who has been a Republican since 1980. Lott and his crew promote and prey on the fears (real and imagined) of salt-of-the-earth European Americans. Republicans who are racist promote distrust and hatred of minorities as a way of dealing with the fears of good common folk. When enough progressive citizens decide to join the Republican Party, people like Lott and others who oppose integration will have to find another vehicle for their cowardly ideology. MICHAEL P. BERRY Phoenix, Ariz...
...Hentoff mused, “Let us suppose these codes were in place on every campus in the country. Would racism go away? Racism would go underground, in the dark, where it’s most comfortable.... But racist attitudes would still fester. The only way to deal with racism is to bring it out into the open—not to pretend it has been scared away...
...objections to diversity senators, as well as to the larger idea of “diversity” as an inherent social good. The assumption that a black person (or white for that matter) has a certain social value, simply because of his or her skin color, is patently racist. If, for example, a black family were denied access to a “restricted” community because it was believed that their moving in would detract from the social value, we would immediately denounce such a racially motivated policy. Why then should the response be so different when...
Neither I, nor those with whom I’ve discussed this issue, think Vaux is a racist. Throughout, he has defended his egalitarian values, especially with regards to race. What I was concerned about was an apparent lack of recognition on his part, to why making such a stark connection is in some ways unhelpful, dangerous even. To see no problem with the parallel is exactly the problem I wanted to bring to light. The color of one’s skin cannot continue to be grounds for assumptions about the languages they speak, understand or relate...
...then muses, “The statement seemed to endorse the preservation of a power structure that has been in place for centuries, a power structure that does not include people of color.” Yes, I mean, how dare they wish their grandchildren well—how racist...