Word: racialization
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...told FBI rounded up 84 Negroes in Chicago, four in Manhattan, with more to come in other northern and midwestern cities-cultist-puppets who, FBI believes, are jerked by the Japs to stir up racial trouble. Last week FBI began arraigning them on charges of sedition, pro-Japanese activities, draft dodging...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...
...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
...Georgia, were struck from the accredited list of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Reason: Talmadge's "unprecedented and unjustifiable political interference" in ousting top educators in last year's flimsy trials before a stooge board of regents. Gene Talmadge charged that the educators fostered racial coeducation...
Among the other points of great importance in the credo to which the students agreed are: (these are summaries, not direct quotes) There shall be no idea of racial superiority, and within countries all minorities shall give up some of their national sovereignty to a world organization. Raw materials, etc., shall be used for the good of all instead the benefit of a few. These three points may seem commonplace today, but think back no further than 1939 and try to imagine student delegates from a great majority of the nations of the world including the United States, agreeing...