Word: racists
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Many Harvard students were disturbed that the Institute of Politics (IOP) invited Pat Buchanan because of his history as a hate-mongering demagogue. Although Buchanan sometimes also advocates legitimate positions, he must be ostracized because of the danger his racist rhetoric poses to our society...
...suggesting that Buchanan does not have the right to articulate his views, even the racist ones, only that the IOP should not have given him a soapbox. Once it did, the proper response--conservative or liberal--to the appearance of this Nazi sympathizer at Harvard was to question the invitation by confronting him with the hate-filled rhetoric Buchanan saves for audiences he thinks receptive to bigotry...
That is why the not-guilty verdict left so many black New Yorkers feeling no justice and no peace. It is also why the Rev. Al Sharpton, for all his flaws, has become the man they turn to when they think they have been victimized by racist cops. Sharpton believes the all-white prosecution team from the Bronx district attorney's office botched the case by failing to offer rebuttal evidence and treating the defendants with kid gloves. "Heck, man, I could have asked better questions than that," Sharpton scoffed after a gingerly cross-examination of one of the accused...
...realized that Amadou Diallo was not involved with the law at all, he was a target simply because he was black," Conner said. "I realized that it could have happened to me. The police were probably not even consciously racist, but this incident is indicative of a problem...
...last week, sent out 250,000 pieces of misleading mail about the candidate's position on the flag flying above the state capitol. Both McCain and Bush ducked the issue, but the flyer said, "Of the major candidates, only George Bush has refused to call the Confederate flag a racist symbol." In a bit of payback last Saturday, McCain's camp decided to send copies of the flyer to African-Americans throughout Michigan. "We'll see if Bush can run as a Dixiecrat in Michigan and everywhere else," says McCain political director John Weaver...