Word: backlashing
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...backlash issue, its impact is baffiingly uneven and unpredictable. In Illinois, Democratic Senator Paul Douglas is losing votes to G.O.P. Challenger Charles Percy not only among Chicago whites but also among hitherto loyal Negroes, who resent Democratic Mayor Richard Daley's resistance to their demands. In Ohio, Republican Congressman William M. McCulloch, a key man in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act through the House, is now under sharp attack by a Democratic opponent who accuses him of "appeasing the violence of the rioters." And in Massachusetts' U.S. Senate race, backlash voters face a bewildering choice between G.O.P...
Reverse Racism. Despite widespread concern with the problem, many civil rights leaders argue that the term "white backlash" is a misnomer. "It's white frontlash," insists Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "It's a prejudice that's always been there...
...Many have said that the 'white backlash' was just a surfacing of latent feelings of hostility toward the Negro," New York's Senator Jacob Javits told an audience in Harlem. "I disagree. It was the sudden violence, the call to reverse racism, and the inconoclastic demagoguery of a few that have threatened and frightened the white community almost to the point where right and reason become secondary to visions about self-preservation...
...relations. Reagan himself is firmly on record against discrimination, and State G.O.P. Chairman Parkinson confidently predicts: "When he's elected, you'll see Negroes and Mexican-Americans on Reagan's staff; Brown has just talked." Nevertheless, Reagan will almost certainly benefit more than Brown from white backlash votes, which could be a powerful factor this year-particularly after San Francisco's race violence last week...
...this weren't enough, the liberal in Congress finds himself faced with an equivalent issue on civil rights as the white backlash becomes more and more a force to be reckoned with. "Slow down," says Senator Mansfield, and one more presumed supporter of Negro demands goes down the drain. The 1966 civil rights bill--a modest attempt to do away with a really minor part of a much vaster problem--gets buried in the process...