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Last fall, Gail E. Bowman, a third-year law student, charged the recruiter for the Chicago law firm of Kirkland and Ellis with making racist remarks during the course of her interview...
...always interesting to see what government officials say when they think the American people aren't listening. One good example is the recently-published racist remark of Earl Butz. Many others came out during the Vietnam War--for instance, presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy's 1965 statement that "the imperium must first and foremost go to war to support its imperial representatives. Such tautological reasoning lies at the foundation of the imperial role." (reprinted in The Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/71). What those in power say in private often contrasts sharply with the public image they would like to create...
...talk among blacks of revenge on the whites, and there is a surprising lack of exultation. What most concerned a black gas-station attendant, for example, were the rivalries among the various nationalist leaders. And while a hefty black laundress insisted that Smith "must go, for he is a racist," she emphasized that "most Europeans [whites] must stay, otherwise we will have no jobs. We must show them we can run things and not frighten them...
...North, working class discontent has been diffused largely by ethnic differences that separate the mass of immigrants who fueled industrial development). Northern working class people escaped into privatism and a waxing standard of living; white Southerners, living in a perpetually underdeveloped region, had no such luxury--aside from racist rage, they escaped into tradition and religion. Fundamentals millenarian cults and hysterical revival meetings in one way, opened outlets for the frustration of feeling dumb and oppressed...
Impressive Feat. At week's end, a shadow was cast on the settlement when five black African nations rejected it, saying that acceptance would, in effect, legalize "colonialist and racist structures of power." The presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola and Botswana called instead for Britain to convene a constitutional convention outside of Rhodesia. Still, the U.S. State Department seemed unconcerned, saying that the five nations had apparently accepted "the essentials" of the agreement...