Word: racistly
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...When she was nine, her family moved from Cincinnati to Chicago, where it was easier for her father, a railroad yards worker, to find employment. "We lived in the Near North Side," she recalled. "At the time of the Second World War, it was the heart of the profascist, racist, anti-labor movement in Chicago. My parents were working people. We were anti-fascist and pro-civil rights. We walked in picket lines. The Communist Party was on our side; when I was 16, I joined...
...Shanker is leading a racist strike," Mrs. Mitchell says. "Decentralization is an absolute necessity for the continuation of black education in this country. Black people must be free to control their schools." She explains Shanker's as a case of "union misleadership," and argues that unions in this country have to move away from bread and butter issues and deal "not only with what's good for themselves but with what's good for their trade...
...there is a curious commentary upon man's inhumanity to man whenever white Americans deliver that callous insult to the Negro's longstanding injury by questioning the validity of his chauvinistic or racist mode of retrieving his blackness. No doubt the black chauvinist mode of self-renewal is as mundane and vile as any other chauvinism at any period of human history. But it is no less an historically valid expression, for the history of white America's relationship to the Negro provided few meaningful alternatives...
...namely, that no white scholar could or should teach a so-called black curriculum, and the Social Sciences 5 critic with me at the panel turned excitedly toward me to register his agreement with Dr. Poussaint. Now I admit that men are free in our mad society to be racist bigots. But they ought to have enough guts to admit that this is what they are and not yell foul when someone points...
...clings to many Old South attitudes. But Brewster is relatively tough on law and order, while Mathias emphasizes the need to remedy the causes of social disorder. Brewster supports the Administration on Viet Nam; Mathias has been a fairly consistent dove. Mahoney, a self-made contractor, has muted his racist rhetoric since 1966 but still appeals to "antis," no matter what they may be against. He cannot be counted out entirely in a state that gave Wallace 42.7% of its votes...