Word: segregationism
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SEGREGATION. In defending his decision to revoke an Internal Revenue Service rule barring tax-exempt status for racially segregated schools, Reagan claimed that "what we were trying to correct was a procedure that we thought had no basis in law." The thought was wrong. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1971...
In his speech, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club, Kuehnelt-Leddihn said apartheid is weakening its hold, adding that the complete segregation of facilities between white and non-whites is collapsing because it is "morally irrational."
Praising the current system of racial segregation in South Africa, apartheid, as favorable to Blacks and whites, a noted European journalist last night said one-man, one-vote rule cannot presently succeed, because of many conflicting tribal and European factions.
Although morality played a role in both government actions, the common underlying goal--as in most successful attempts to alter behavior--was to enhance personal freedom. Will argued that there can be "closed questions in an open society," meaning that some things are clearly immoral and therefore beyond debate. For...
That evening, as we walked around the casino, I began to understand the mentality of South Africa's whites. Since Bophuthatswana is in theory independent, there is no segregation. We were surrounded by Blacks, some of whom shot hostile glances at us or appeared to be sizing us up. We...