Word: racistly
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...project an up-to-date image, sounding reasonable on TV talk shows and often wearing sober business suits. But at their rallies in the dark of night, today's self-styled knights of the Ku Klux Klan still wear white robes, burn crosses and spout the racist rhetoric of their grandfathers in the Klan's hey day of the 1920s, when klaverns across the country claimed millions of members...
Although all Klansmen subscribe to the same racist beliefs, they are fractured among at least a dozen factions. The oldest and largest is the 3,500-member United Klans of America, led by Robert Shelton, 50, a former tire salesman from Tuscaloosa, Ala. But his group has been waning in influence in the past few years. The South's most visible klavern now is the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which has about 2,500 gun-toting, violence-talking members. Their imperial wizard is Bill Wilkinson, 36, a former electrical contractor from Denham Springs...
...tragedy came at a time of increasing tension in central North Carolina because of aggressive activity by the Klan. The racist organization has recently been challenged by a dogmatic Maoist group, the Workers Viewpoint Organization. It has perhaps 200 members, most of them in Los Angeles and New York City but a dozen or so in the Greensboro and Durham areas. In July two of the leftists showed up at a Klan rally in tiny China Grove, N.C., where they banged on doors, burned a Confederate flag, and got into fistfights with Klansmen...
Opponents have accused Kucinich of using racist appeals in his campaigns. In the nonpartisan mayoral primary, Kucinich polled only 15.3 per cent of the black vote compared to 25.3 per cent for Republican Lieutenant Governor George V. Voinovich. Still, Kucinich delivers speeches in the black ghetto to tumultuous applause and former mayor Carl Stokes has strongly endorsed him, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I understand that in a diverse city in which racial politics has been the order of the day, that, if a man is going to survive, he has to do what everyone who has survived has done...
...change the attitudes on campus rather than those of society. We feel the need to disprove those individuals at Harvard who feel we are inferior in intellect. However, I think that this important campus-wide struggle tends to cloud the real obstacles to achieving equal status. To the racist the supposed intellectual inferiority sometimes attributed to blacks is justification for discrimination. It came as a shocking reintroduction to society that despite the number of achievements I may earn, there are those who will never respect me because of my skin color. This is a perfect illustration of how much further...