Word: racistly
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...years, Dixie has been a song that bothered the sensibilities of Southern blacks because it has come to seem almost the anthem of the Confederacy. Last week, however, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that there is nothing racist about Dixie...
...response to the article published in the Crimson of Tuesday, January 11, concerning a racist incident at Radcliffe this past fall, we would like to make these clarifications. The article alleges that the incident was not racist, while, in fact, we feel that it was a very real example of racism. There was no good reason to stop the party. It was planned weeks in advance for that Saturday night, a fact which the Crimson omitted. If there were objections to the noise that the party would have caused, it could have been held in one of Barnard's common...
...festooning of Professor Herrnstein's classroom with placards calling him a racist and a fascist, badgering him in class on at least one occasion with irrelevant and ad hominem questions (e.g. "is that why you think Attica prisoners should have been murdered?"), and of reading a long and disruptive statement in class...
According to Mark, racism is "a belief that skin colors really are important." His assertion, as it stands, is meaningless. Are doctors who advise sickle-cell anemia tests to more black patients than white patients racist? Are geneticists who advise light-skinned people to wear protective clothing in warm, humid climates racist? Are historians who point to the exploitation and oppression of blacks, Indians and Chicanos racist? Should they deny reality? Should they suggest that blacks were targets of discrimination on a geographical basis, a metaphysical basis, a divine command? Such questions make Mark's definition look ridiculous, but, alas...
...definition is formulated to disguise a belief that social assistance on the basis of race is, in fact, racist. That is, it would be Mark's position, apparently, that a scholarship fund established for blacks is racist because it helps only blacks. There should be programs only for the improvement of humanity; Martin Luther King becomes the counterpart of Robert Welch and George Lincoln Rockwell...