Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Percy, Illinois Senator, ruminating on the ailments troubling the Grand Old Party: "We have to get the party out of the country clubs, out of a Caucasian atmosphere, away from the Anglo-Saxon approach. As long as the Republican Party takes a Neanderthal point of view, I don't see why it deserves...
Another factor that may have caused some church members to sour on Edwards was his adoption of a year-old "non-Caucasian" baby. A New York Times reporter quoted Billy Carter as saying of the adoption: "It was 99% of the preacher's problem. If you ask me, some of those Christians ought to be thrown to the lions." Billy later said that he had been "sort of misquoted. Most Plains residents dismissed Billy's charge. "He was just poppin' off," said one woman. "Why, the wife of the head of the board of deacons...
...need science to tell you all men are not created equal. Put a man and a woman in a secluded room and they will soon uncover this fact themselves. The woman cannot grow a testicle, nor the man a bust, nor the African a blonde hair, nor the Caucasian a colorfast suntan. Nor do they need to. As my roommate says, "What counts is not my 140 I.Q., but what I do with...
...assertion ("This would be added evidence ..."). Unfortunately, the approximately four-century history of Khazaria is thin in primary source material. The kingdom seems to have flourished as a crossroads of East-West trade. Persecuted Jews from Byzantium are believed to have flocked to Khazaria, where they intermarried with their Caucasian coreligionists. When Genghis Khan's Mongols swept westward in the 13th century, Khazaria's Jews fled to Eastern and Central Europe. These fugitives, Koestler suggests, were part of a second Diaspora that became the Ashkenazim, or European Jews of Russia and Poland. True Semitic Jews, he says...
This conflict between sense and sensationalism causes some problems. Koestler is fearful, for example, that his book might be used to undercut the foundations of Israel. If most Israelis are really descended from Caucasian nomads who stamped themselves kosher 1,200 years ago, how can they claim...