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...pointed our fingers at all the powerful people in the United States," he says. "There was a deliberate attempt to make the John Birch Society look lousy. How can you make us more lousy than calling us racist, anti-Semitic, pro Nazi, pro-KKK and other junk like that...
...statement that resisters should see the new law as somehow "sharpening" the moral issues, and therefore not protest, is absurd. Civil rights activists in the South did not applaud when a government instituted some new racist measure on top of those already in force. Neither will non-registrants see this law as anything other than further evidence of the Reagan Administration's militarism, to be abhorred no less than the call to registration itself...
...grounds in cinder-block huts for the eight months the thoroughbreds are running. "I don't go far from the track," says Raymond Johnson, 31 a groom since 1976. "It's just a known fact: Cicero is Cicero, the same as it's always been-racist. You watch your step." In the fall of 1980, two black race-track families enrolled their children in Drexel Elementary School, three blocks away. A crowd of glaring white parents forewarned, confronted the five children on their first day of school. The principal declared that he could not guarantee their safety...
...courtroom during a trial and hit a warden with a broom handle. "I'm no bad dude," he says, "just an antisocial individual." The third of 13 children, Brisbon thinks that his upbringing by a strict black Muslim father made him different: "I was taught to be a racist and not like whites. As I grew up, I decided I didn't like nobody...
Aubespin does not regard his employers as being fundamentally racist. Indeed, he says, "top management has made a commitment to bring blacks into the mainstream." Blacks hold 19 of 234 editorial staff jobs at the Courier-Journal and its sister daily, the afternoon Louisville Times; the minority representation of 8.5% at the two papers (including one Hispanic) compares favorably with a national newsroom average of 5.5%. But as Aubespin's story illustrates, even after minority journalists get hired, they face enduring problems in trying to win the professional trust of their colleagues...