Word: klansmen
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Trapp: I denounce everything they stand for. But it's not the people in the organizations that I hate. I hate what they stand for and what they do. If I were to say I hate all Klansmen because they're Klansmen and all Nazis because they're Nazis, I would still be a racist. I was one of the most hardcase white activists in the U. S. If I can have that change of mind or change of heart, anybody...
...Scarlett wants to get in touch with her Irish roots, and Ripley wants to get her away from the freed slaves and budding Klansmen of the Reconstruction South. Pushing a complex reality under the Old Sod solves the problem of having to create substantial roles for black characters. When hired to write the book, Ripley insisted on a contemporary treatment of race, specifically the avoidance of dialect. Her method is to retain speech patterns while providing elocution lessons...
...time to destroy it unnoticed. Realistically, only those commonly in the area would have been able to pull this off. While I hope it was not done by members of our community, I am not naive enough to think it impossible. Anti-Semitism is not limited to Nazis and Klansmen; it exists literally in our own backyard...
...forget the police officer in South Carolina who told me, a few months before I arrived at Harvard, how he and his fellow Klansmen liked to "work over the niggers...
...hometown, everyone knows that a Black in Confederate Park after dark is likely to be lynched. Klansmen still display the Stars and Bars prominently in their own parades. Hostile, Confederate-flag waving crowds abused civil rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag...