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...Racist cops in the inner cities still follow black people around as if they were all criminals and store owners still follow black shoppers in fear that they will be shoplifted. What is the purpose of affirmative action if black people think they are locked out of a racist job market? And why is it that white people and black people still look at the verdict in the Simpson murder trial as if they lived on two different planets? The Civil Rights movement has not failed in its mission to give more opportunities in life to black people...
Mansfield want to "stomp out" the Strategic Offense Society for pointing out the racism that he would like to cloak in the form of jokes. We're hurting his image. Although bigotry is omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist...
...black entertainers, black athletes and all black males who cannot attend the march (as well as black women and children) to engage in a one-day work and shopping boycott. "We're closing down on that day," he has said. "We are absenting ourselves for one day from a racist system." Jackson says of the mission, "We have to turn pain to power and power into public policy." If the march draws even 200,000 people, it could turn Farrakhan the outsider into a major mainstream player. Asks Ishmael Muhammad, Elijah's son and now a Farrakhan assistant...
Some reformers would go further and put new restrictions on lawyers' conduct inside the courtroom as well: California Governor Pete Wilson wants to restrict an attorney's right to use political rhetoric in front of the jury, like Johnnie Cochran's urging them to "send a message" about racist misconduct. This sort of jury nullification, wrote syndicated columnist George Will, in which the panel is motivated by something other than the particulars of the case, amounts to "approximately what Groucho Marx said in the movie Duck Soup: 'Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?'" Legal scholar Kamisar...
What should we hear, especially from Clinton, who has the job the others want and so has a special responsibility to speak frankly at a time like this? By last Friday the President had elaborated a bit. He wished for more police, fewer racist cops and greater accountability. "We know how to do it," Clinton said. "Let's get after...