The plaintiff, a white male, brought up the issue that he believed he had been rejected merely on the basis of his Caucasian status, and that minorities who had gained admission into the University had lower test scores then he did . ... You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of race and then say, "You are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. " President Johnson believed that with affirmative action, society was allowing minorities to act...

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If contact was made, then in most cases the black man would be punished, either by a brutal beating or by a lynching. ... Though blacks constituted 63 % of the slightly more than 30,000 residents of Tallahatchie County, it occasioned no surprise that none was selected to serve on the jury. ... President Eisenhower, who was in office when Brown vs. ... Eisenhower believed that the racial question in the United States was emotional rather than rational, and that "arbitrary law" could not be strong enough to solve it (Whitfield, Pg. 71). ...

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Then, in his article, Achebe says that Conrad is racist because of how he projects the Africans in an intelligence manner. ... Now and then a boat from the shore gave one momentary contact with reality. ... So Conrad is not racist, he just does not have the experience or the knowledge to put the Africans at the same level as himself, because in his time period, people believed that Africans were lower than they were. ... His book should be further read by students, for no other reason than to see how Africans were seen and treated back in Conrad's time. ...

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