Word: supremacists
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DIED. BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, 80, white supremacist who escaped justice for 31 years before being convicted in 1994 of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers; in Jackson, Mississippi. Two all-white, all-male juries failed to reach a verdict when he was twice tried in 1964, despite the fact that his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. The case was reopened twelve years ago and a jury of eight blacks and four whites convicted him in 1994. He was serving a life sentence at the time of his death...
...criminal" and soft on capital punishment. The charge was outright slander. White had voted to uphold the death sentence in 41 of the 59 cases that came before him, roughly the same proportion as Ashcroft's court appointees when he was Governor. No wonder Gordon Baum, leader of white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, in 1999 included Ashcroft along with Pat Buchanan in the circle of politicians he'd like to see in the White House...
...arrested with his wife, 24-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter and charged with financing an interstate drug ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang called the Devil Dogs that hung out at the local Taco Bell. Taco Bell! Somewhere John Gotti is laughing hysterically. And Vito Corleone is spinning in his grave...
Harvard, too, was swept up in controversy. Late 1991 Institute of Politics speakers included white supremacist David Duke and black supremacist Leonard Jeffries...