Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...controversy seeped into the midterm election campaign. In North Carolina, Republican Senator Jesse Helms blatantly played on the insecurity of white voters fearful of unemployment in recessionary times. He won re-election against a strong challenge from black candidate Harvey Gantt...
...rights bill. They will; Senator Edward Kennedy and the other leading sponsors plan to reintroduce the measure early in 1991. Bennett was accurately assumed to be speaking for the White House. Thus the near universal belief that the Bush forces were sculpting a new version of Willie Horton, the black killer used in 1988 as a symbol of liberals' softness on crime...
...image would suffer. "This is a powder keg," said an official privately. "Somebody is going to read racism into every word you say on this subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who says that "some upscale white suburban voters can easily be repulsed...
...fact is that much of the controversy stems from the fragility of black gains in higher education. According to the most recent statistics, black enrollment at U.S. colleges in 1988 was 8.7% of the national total. That marked a mild gain over the previous two years, but is still low considering that blacks represent about 12.4% of the U.S. population. "If we were color- blind as a nation, then ending these scholarships would be understandable," says Gina Smith, 19, the first recipient of a joint Hope College-University of Michigan scholarship for minority students interested in medicine...
...trickle has not escaped the Census Bureau. Last January it reported that for the first time in more than a century the proportion of black Americans living in the South had taken an upward climb: 56% lived in the region in 1988, up from 52% in 1980. More important than the number of blacks, however, is the implicit indictment of the North and the redemption of the South contained in this black to-and-fro. "What's unusual is that they were immigrants to another country in a real sense, and ordinarily, immigrants don't go back...