Word: schism
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...product of a racist self-styled analyst, Hirschorn's tirade can be classified as an attempt to refine that schism. By tying worthless praise of Reverend Jackson's to the contingency that he support the Democratic nominee, and by suggesting that the destruction of the two-primary system in the South will hurt Black voters by leading to the election of Southern Republicans, he glosses over the fact that historically, Southern Democrats have been the most overtly racist members of the U.S power elite. Ultimately, it makes no real difference to the plight of Blacks in Mississippi if democrat John...
...also compelled to address Hirschorn's assertion that Reverend Jackson has created an "almost absolute schism" between Black and white voters. Rather, we must address the simple, yet virulent racism that is the impetus behind this and other such grotesque examples of non-analysis...
Only an arrogance stemming from the most vulgar strain of racism could allow Hirschorn to suggest that Reverend Jackson's candidacy has split Blacks and whites in this country. In reality, there has been such a schism, created, nurtured and refined by whites since the first slave ship reached these shores in 1619. What Reverend Jackson's candidacy has done is recognize this schism and provide an opportunity for Black voters to participate in, and, by so doing, transform, a political system which has this schism as a fundamental part of its foundation, and which, therefore, is itself morally bankrupt...
...reason, are indeed unable to support the presidential candidate who is most in tune with their own philosophy. We would simply ask Hirschorn this: Can Reverend Jackson be called an opportunist and a hypocrite for merely diagnosing yet another dynamic in white Americans that refines and widens the very schism Hirschorn supposedly deplores...
...everlasting regret, the USSR initially provided assistance to its fledgling ally in this endeavor. However, Khrushchev reneged on a promise to provide China a "sample" A-bomb, according to Beijing which made this charge when presenting its account of the Sino-Soviet schism. Nevertheless, in April 1964, within 15 years of its establishment, the PRC successfully detonated an atomic device...