Word: antiblack
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Farrakhan is a demagogue, though not much of one. Compared with North Carolina's Senator Bob Reynolds, who in 1939 likened the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia to the American pioneer spirit, Farrakhan is rational. Compared with the old antiblack, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish demagogues of the South, like "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman of South Carolina, who boasted to the Senate, "We shot the Negroes" and "we are not ashamed of it," Farrakhan is harmless, at least for the present. He uses the basic demagogue's tools of swinging illogically from one emotional touchstone to another, of performing little body shivers that...
...said, should "selfdestruct in ten years" as revitalized cities repay the loans. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of Chicago's self-help Operation PUSH, charged that before Reagan, federal programs for the cities were "humane, sensible, broadly based," while under Reagan they are "anti-poor, anti-worker, antiblack, part of a meanness mania against the masses...
Black members of the Administration (only 18 now holding positions that require Senate confirmation) were furious. Said one: "The real question is whether it is the intention of this Administration to appear antiblack. If so, they should just let us know." Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who fumed that he would not allow the President to be perceived as a racist, argued that the Administration had to defuse the issue by proposing new legislation to forbid the practice that had been instituted the previous week. Reagan agreed. A spokesman said the proposed legislation would bar tax breaks...
Ehrlichman claims that the Nixon policies were often designed to appeal to racists. "That subliminal appeal to the antiblack voter was always in Nixon's statements and speeches on schools and housing, and it always bothered...
...very antiSemitic. I don't care what the American Jewish Congress or the B'nai B'rith will issue by way of polls showing that the black community is not. I think that's pure bull . . . Now, I want to be fair about it. I think whites are basically antiblack ... But the difference is: it is recognized as morally reprehensible, something you have to control...