Word: racistly
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...tension built into its attempt to become the City Too Busy to Hate was apparent. Although what it had to sell was its connection to the South, its national ambitions called for a constant struggle to escape the South -- particularly the South's reputation for being backward and racist. In those days, the struggle did not always go well. A lot of Atlanta's residents were not, in fact, too busy to hate. Occasionally, they even found the time to toss dynamite in the direction of some of the people they hated...
...quarter-century later, Atlanta, it is said, has finally shaken off the dust of Georgia. What had been Forrest Street -- named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel...
...hoping that Dukakis was going to pick Jackson," Prarie View A&M student Kevin Walls said. "I'm going to support the Democratic ticket because I'm a Democrat. I guess, in a way, it's good that Jesse wasn't on the ticket. Some racist idiot may have tried to kill...
...Time and again, Coles uses his three or four pages to stop and marvel at the courage or faith or humanity of those he has come into contact with, be it Dorothy Day, a sharecropper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, or a six-year old Black child who went to class despite racist taunts as the New Orleans public schools were being integrated...
...Japan and author of Pictures from the Water Trade. "It has had wars, it has colonized parts of Asia, but apart from that its experience in dealing with other nations is still very primitive." Nor have many older Japanese been free of an attitude -- some claim an almost racist conviction -- that Japan's uniqueness makes it impossible for others to copy its success...