Word: racialization
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Hitler's Nazis, he said, had committed "terrible . . . unspeakable crimes . . . in the name of the German people, imposing on them the obligation to make moral and material amends." The Chancellor reminded the deputies that the West German Constitution rejects "any form of racial discrimination." He pledged his government to unrelenting prosecution of all Jew-baiters.* The Bundestag listened in strained silence, broken only by the distracting paper-shuffling of a neo-Nazi member, sideburned Franz Richter, who was ostentatiously leafing through his morning mail...
...brown of suit, entered the Durban Municipal Free Library, sat down near a dozen startled whites, and with trembling fingers turned the pages of a magazine. An attendant hurried up, whispered that the library was for whites only; he must leave. Replied the man: "I am breaking your apartheid [racial segregation] law, which is based on the false, un-Christian theory of race inequality...
...cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national chairmen of the nation's major parties stood accused of dipping political fingers into the RFC's bottomless jampot. In the last decade, the U.S. could boast of an enormous stride forward toward racial tolerance and understanding. Yet in Illinois last week, a grand jury of citizens exculpated the men who led the ugly Cicero race riots, indicted instead a man who pleaded for justice...
...Obviously the vast majority of your readers will be outraged by racial discrimination which you have portrayed-but what results do you expect? This American public opinion which you arouse can do nothing constructive. Quite the contrary, a condemnation by Americans of a South African internal affair can have a decidedly unpleasant effect; and still without improving the lot of the South African Negroes...
...fact, in crawling, grabbing and the like, a baby chimpanzee would do better than either racial group . . . HENRY E. GARRETT Department of Psychology Columbia University New York City