Word: supremacist
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Harvard Students for Choice President Abigail L. Fee ’05 cited the use of a Holocaust survivor’s story and the comparison of Planned Parenthood to white supremacist organizations as the elements of the publication that she found personally offensive...
DANIEL LEVITAS. The Du Bois Institute and the Harvard Coop co-sponsor a discussion and book signing by Pulitzer Prize nominee Levitas, who will discuss the extent of the terrorist threat posed by white supremacist groups in the United States as described in his most recent book, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, which provides a history of white supremacist groups from their post-Civil War roots to the present. Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Free. Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass...
...upon us. For the third year in a row, the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard will host Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues, created as a forum for voices marginalized by a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. It expanded into V-Day, an observance around Valentine’s Day meant to create awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault and raise money for feminist organizations...
...both ways in the battle over civil rights, speaking in a code that signaled his support for segregationist groups but in words so vague that he could later deny that they meant anything at all. The Senator from Mississippi appeared as recently as the 1990s before a white-supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, telling its members that they stand for "the right principles and the right philosophy." When confronted over the remarks later, he denied any "firsthand" knowledge of the group's beliefs. For years, the tactic worked for Lott, who used it mostly in small gatherings...
...public statements regretting the end of Jim Crow. He voted against a federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. "Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," he wrote in a 1981 amicus brief defending Bob Jones University's ban on interracial dating. He has hobnobbed with thinly veiled white-supremacist groups. It took several attempts last week before he could manage to say that segregation is immoral. Everything Lott has done and said in his career suggests he doesn't view the civil rights movement as a vital bedrock of modern America. This moral and political blindness does not preclude...