Word: racialization
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Senator Taft, Senator Kefauver, and Senator Kerr are others who believe that racial equality is a wonderful thing but are not serious enough to do anything about it. They dissolve all hopes for equalizing the civil rights of Negroes in the crucible of States Rights. For as long as the United States has had a history, the motto "states rights" has been the dodge for politicians who were afraid to tell the electorate to forget the issue altogether. Fair employment practices is an example. Thirty-seven states have no compulsory FEPC laws. All the southern states, in which equality...
...whole subject of immigration . . . to demonstrate to the world that we are sincere in advocating principles based on equality of men of all races and nations." Pastore passionately urged: "We should take the roster of the American Army in World War II . . . and, upon the basis of those racial strains, judge our immigration...
Pearl Buck's latest, The Hidden Flower, preaches racial tolerance. Allen Kennedy is a young lieutenant in Japan. He meets pretty Japanese Josui, and they fall in love. Josui's parents object at first, but love triumphs and they get married. Alas, back in the U.S. Allen's biased mother will not receive Josui. For a while the couple tries to live in big-city isolation, but can't make a go of it. Josui runs away, has her baby, and sees it adopted by a kindly Jewish doctor. But Josui's life and Allen...
...most states of the U.S., it is dangerous for a careless or malicious newspaper to libel individuals, but little risk at all to libel such groups as Negroes, Jews, Catholics. Only three states (Illinois, Massachusetts and Indiana) ban all libels against racial or religious blocs. Reason: most states have wisely decided that a group libel law can be as dangerous a restriction on freedom of press & speech as it is a convenient weapon to shut up hatemongers. Newsmen have generally opposed such laws for the same reason. But last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided otherwise...
...sailed back home, to deliver his induction sermon at Riebeek West, his home town. It was an hour-long diatribe breathing hellfire and damnation, subtly hinting that the British, the Jews and the Kaffirs were robbing the Boers of their "racial heritage...