Word: racists
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...head of the police union has repeatedly denied that a problem exists. "Our officers don't have time to play these little racist games. Like, 'Ha, ha, I pulled you over because you're black,'" Keith Fangman told the Cincinnati Enquirer before the riots. Even after, Fangman refused to concede. "Our police officers are not some band of rogue Nazis roaming Cincinnati, hunting down and killing black men," he said Friday. "That is inflammatory, it's racist, and it's wrong." Then he made a new claim that was just as wrong--declaring that 10 of the 15 suspects killed...
...Nobel Prize for literature. The education department of Gauteng province (where Johannesburg is located) recently announced that Gordimer's 1990 novel, "July's People," was "not acceptable" for use in the prescribed list of books to be read by high school seniors. The committee described the book as "deeply racist, superior and patronizing...
David Horowitz drew national attention when he attempted to take out an advertisement, titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea-and Racist Too," in student papers at campuses around the country last month. Student papers at Brown and UC Berkeley, which accepted the advertisement, were met the following day with protests, calls for resignations and vandalism to their distribution system...
...exhibit uses household objects, quotations and photography to give insight into the 1950s, a period that conjures up an ambivalent mixture of nostalgia, disgust and curiosity in the modern viewer. The photographs, which are organized by theme, address topics such as childhood, the teenage years, marriage, suburbia, economic expansion, racist stereotyping and politics...
...Drums." An oddment from Alexander Korda in the late '30s; the Raj and Great Game, with Sabu truckling to The Man and, as so often in films of the era, an astonishingly blithe and racist narrative wherein all enemies of the British colonials are mad cult leaders with snake pits and strange gods. The mad cult leaders are played by scrawny Jewish character actors darkened with shoe polish...