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...become real. The group's sponsorship of the film angered many of the 35,000 members at the A.L.A.'s annual business meeting in Chicago. Detroit's public library director and past A.L.A. president, Clara Jones, condemned the film as "highly unsuitable, insensitive, in poor taste and skillfully racist." But the film's supporters have been equally vociferous. Said Atlanta Head Public Librarian Ella Yates, who is black: "I don't believe in squelching the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis or any racist who wants to talk. The only way to deal with hateful ideas is openly." The A.L.A...
...Judicial discretion in sentencing is now the last residue of an unexposed, unreasoned, bigoted method of decision-making based on the most racist and sexist of biases," Dershowitz added...
Despite discouragement of plea bargaining, conviction rates are startlingly high: 94% nationally, compared with a regular conviction rate of 73%. That rate naturally troubles defense attorneys. Some of them are critical of the program on grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others claim that their clients are stigmatized by the career-criminal category, even though the trial jury never learns the defendant has been specially labeled. The career-criminal program has reduced the gap between arrest and trial to about 60 days in some cities, a marked improvement. Remarks Boston Prosecutor Lloyd...
...Washington. Defensive and insecure, driven and intense, he often said that the Senate was made up of "workhorses and show horses," a distinction clearly made in order of preference. Through sheer will and work, Byrd overcame poverty as well as charges that he was a racist and the Senate's Uriah Heep, the classic hypocrite in Dickens' David Copperfield. Now, after 25 years in Congress, Byrd is still not beloved by his colleagues, but he has their respect...
...only was St. Clair's behavior high-handed, culturally biased, and subtly racist, his argument of cultural assimilation proved logically contradictory. In arguing that the Indians' loss of their native language, their intermarriage, their informal government, and their conversion to Christianity dissolved their tribal status, he ignored the stark fact that Indians, at least in the East, have to live in a white man's society and by white man's rules. Indians survived by undergoing cultural assimilation, and now they are being penalized for adapting to necessity...