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Article: RACISM HOLDS FAST TO THE WORLD BUT HISTORY SHOWS THAT ITS GRIP ISN'T UNBREAKABLE.(Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- March 24, 1996
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Byline: Kevin P. Keane
All is race; there is no other truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred (1847)
The enormity and depth of racism's impact beggar imagination.
Commentators at the time of the Spanish-American War commonly described it as the latest incident in the long-standing conflict between the Latin and Anglo- Saxon ``races.''
When World War I broke out, an angry German crowd assailed the British Embassy in Berlin with chants of ``race traitors'' for siding with the ``Latin'' French. And Hitler's decision to cast his geopolitical and ``geo-cultural'' policies in a racial framework - with horrifying results for members of ...