Word: racistly
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Only a few days ago, the Board demonstrated again that it has a mind of its own. With the state's racist politicians from Gov. Barnett on down screaming like stuck pigs, it voted eight to three to send Mississippi State's basketball team to compete in the integrated NCAA tournament...
...maintain policies of racial and ethnic discrimination, based on the dictates of their national organizations and/or their own choice. The N.A.A.C.P. and other groups, working in part through the Interfraternity Council at the University, have sought to end racial discrimination in fraternities, or at least to have the flagrantly racist clauses removed from fraternity charters. So far, they have had little success, but the pressure for change is undeniably increasing...
...letter printed Feb. 8, concerning the "Negro (White) Problem" was disturbing for its accuracy more than its bitterness. The author was right, of course: failure in American race relations lies with the liberal as well as the apathetic, or outright racist. The latter acts for the satisfaction of setting one self above another. The former is motivated, as pointed out, not by a felt sense of equality, but rather by the need to assuage conscience, to fulfill an externally imposes self-image of virtue. Missing in both attitudes, of course, is genuine respect for the Negro as a man. Furthermore...
Since its publication last fall, Carleton Coon's Origin of Races has been the subject of bitter, continuous attack. His critics have called him a racist, hinted that he was probably a Nazi, and have denounced his work as a return to obsolete, misleading anthropological techniques...
...presented can be misleading. Furthermore, as might be expected in any book of its size, there are certain factual errors. Undoubtedly Coon's insistence on a "racial temperament" would not be upheld by a majority of anthropologists. It is too bad that the errors seem to strengthen the racist argument...