Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the situation made headlines, Fox abruptly changed course. He returned a completed dean's questionnaire in mid-July, adding a cover letter explaining the delay and the administration's remaining worries with the book. Specifically, he criticized "segregationist and separatist assumptions behind the [dean and student] questionnaires" and concerns over the "survey technique" for student opinions which, because of the small number polled, would seem to produce "at best a series of idiosyncratic responses, at worst, a quite misleading, for good or ill, impression...
...July 27 letter to Fox, Beckham took issue with the College's concerns, writing. "Without meaning to sound cynical, I must say that it is often exasperating to discover that whenever Black people decided to do something for themselves, those efforts are termed segregationist and separatist.. To be quite honest, Black students' primary considerations have to do with their chances for psychological as well as academic survival, and those chances are usually linked directly to the college's commitment to the special needs Black students bring to the campus...
Then, ten years ago, he began to see the segregationist system as "an illusion" and quit the Broederbond. Last December, Smith gave public vent to his changed views with the publication of Storm-Kompas, a booklet in which 24 prominent Afrikaner clergy and writers attacked apartheid on religious and moral grounds. Smith was the volume's principal editor. Within the ironclad code of Afrikaner society, the book's viewpoint was shocking. The publication was only a warmup. Last month Smith was prominent among the 123 N.G. Church clergy who issued a fierce, indeed historic, protest against the regime...
Judiciary Committee approval hinged on Chairman Strom Thurmond's willingness to give ground on his long-held segregationist views. Although the South Carolina Republican did not vote for the compromise, he decided not to fight it after long talks with fellow Senators and an unusual two-hour private meeting with Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Surmised Hooks: "In his own way, I think he doesn't want to be remembered as a bigot." In essence, the compromise devised by Senators Robert Dole, Edward Kennedy and Charles Mathias decreed that...
...puny and anemic up against the forces--of good, hunger for power, racism and the must--that seek to dissolve them. You cannot legislate those righteous phrases into being: you cannot compel with and justice and love. If you pass a law against segregation but don't convince the segregationist that he is wrong, these his have will find a dozen other outlets; indeed, it the put the same man in charge of Poland or EI Salvador, and capitalism or communism won't matter--the countries will end as looking the same...