Word: supremacist
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...then, were their associates? One key to the answer, Jones thinks, is a white supremacist named Richard Wayne Snell. On the evening of the Oklahoma bombing, Snell was executed in Arkansas for the 1983 killing of a pawnbroker he mistakenly believed to be Jewish. In the early 1980s Snell and some associates conspired to blow up the Murrah building. His last words before his death were, "Look over your shoulder; justice is coming." Aha! says Jones. "Why would Snell think that unless he knew? One hypothesis is that a group of people decided to give the old man a going...
...dismaying, in this public forum, to be the subject of libel by a Harvard Fellow, Lee A. Daniels (letter, March 7), and by a tenured Harvard professor, Martin Kilson (letter, March 12). Kilson calls me a "neo-White supremacist," or something close to it. Daniels calls me a "neo-Confederate" and offers an object lesson of how to deconstruct an author's text--without quoting it (see my letter of February 21)--in order to show that the author meant to say exactly the opposite of what the author actually said...
...process." (Kilson now distinguishes between the antebellum "institutionalizing perpetrators of slavocracy" and the rest of us perpetrators.) I have rejected being labeled such a perpetrator, and for this Kilson calls me "arrogant." I do not know what epithet I will merit for denying any "arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it," but I am unlikely to respond again, to a tenured Harvard professor or anyone else...
...message to Lee Daniels, Martin Kilson and other readers is this: If you find someone with whom you disagree on racial issues, do not automatically label that person a neo-Confederate White supremacist. Instead, ask questions and pursue meaningful dialogue on how we can live together as the one human race that we are. --Jeffrey W. Vanke Ph.D. Candidate Harvard History
Indeed, Jeffrey Vanke is even arrogant about his belief that Christian forgiveness should ensue without obligatory evidence that the perpetrators of cruel inhumanity have undertaken a viable redeeming process--an arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it, I daresay. This arrogance rejects the slightest reflection upon the principle of a reciprocity imperative--a principle Jeffrey Vanke dismisses with a certain sneering and mocking tone no less...