Word: racistly
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...Must we really extend the principle of free speech to blatantly racist or sexist communications that are so offensive to others, so inflammatory, so devoid of intellectual content that they could not conceivably contribute to the pursuit of truth and understanding...
...circle of flattering pink mirrors catches multiple reflections of the plaster statue of Diana. On the dusty-rose settee, two elderly ladies in Orion lace sweaters tell each other racist jokes and giggle. The attendant, who is black, has just unwrapped twelve rolls of toilet paper and is now dragging two huge bags of trash out the door. She passes an aghast English-speaking European tourist, who apparently expected Las Vegas to be more in the style of James Bond at Monte Carlo...
Remarkably, this understanding left few of the witnesses estranged from their native land. Says a Marine: "As a black person, there wasn't no problem fightin' the enemy. I knew Americans were prejudiced, were racist and all that, but, basically, I believed in America 'cause I was an American." An Air Force P.O.W in North Viet Nam tells interrogators he will not be used for propaganda: "My color doesn't have nothin' to do with it. We have problems in the U.S., but you can't solve them." Another captured airman takes the same...
...Begin declared, "My friends and I have nothing in common with the man." An aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that Kahane was "not acceptable under any circumstances" in a Likud-led government. While Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek called for a law that would make the espousal of racist views illegal, Israel's state-owned radio kept Kahane's more inflammatory statements...
...time has not yet come, and may never come for such a team. For the moment, these two will have to suffice, and they will surely not sway the racist government in Johannesburg from what it sees as its appointed course. But their presence sends a clear signal that if their country cannot participate, its native-born athletes can and will, drawing attention to their adopted nations, and to the abhorrent nature of the South African government...