Word: rev
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...RESPONSE TO THE OPINION PIECE ON Clarence Thomas, I would note it's good that the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., and other African Americans have finally recognized Thomas for what he is, but where were they during the confirmation hearings? Many prominent blacks were well aware that Thomas was unfit to follow in Thurgood Marshall's footsteps; very few had the temerity to come out and say it. If Justice Marshall could see who is occupying the seat on the Supreme Court that he held so honorably, he would be spinning...
...board met to consider whether to end a 30-year effort to include more blacks, Latinos and Native Americans among the system's some 160,000 students. The meeting was interrupted by a bomb threat, punctuated by protests from radical feminists and brought to a halt when the Rev. Jesse Jackson linked arms with other protesters to sing We Shall Overcome. At that point, the regents fled to a separate meeting room...
...firestorm of protests erupted over the decision by University of California regents to eliminateaffirmative actionprograms in admissions and hiring, a move that is expected to influence debate over these programs in other parts of the country. While Rev. Jesse Jackson called on the Clinton Administration to block the action, citing federal funding for the university, Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, called the UC decision "a threat to all Americans." A Time-CNN poll released Friday found 65 percent believe federal affirmative action programs should be changed rather than eliminated, while 47 percent said that the system...
...rests on an assumption of black inferiority." This, notes Ted Shaw, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Jenkins case, "is probably the first time a Supreme Court Justice has questioned the reasoning in Brown." That it came from a black, says Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., "makes me want to throw...
...head of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. "If it does turn out that for some people, there is a genetic or hormonal component, the cry will then arise to take care of that." Indeed, the cry is already rising. The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, president of the Traditional Values Coalition in Anaheim, California, says that if a biological cause of homosexuality is found, then "we would have to come up with some reparative therapy to correct that genetic defect...