By Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
ISBN-10: 1250087422
ISBN-13: 9781250087423
On October 15, 1985, pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake urban, Utah, killing humans. the single link-both sufferers belonged to the Mormon Church. day after today, a 3rd bomb used to be detonated within the parked motor vehicle of church-going relatives guy, Mark Hoffman. awfully, he survived. It wasn't till gurus wondered the surprisingly evasive Hoffman that one other, extra surprising hyperlink among the sufferers emerged...
It was once the looks of an alleged ancient rfile that challenged the very bedrock of Mormon instructing, wondered the legitimacy of its founder, and threatened to disillusion thousands of its faithful-unless the Mormon hierarchy buried the facts.
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Defeat in the face of harassment and persecution. However, the cost in both psychological and economic terms may be prohibitive. In a larger sense, we all lose when victims are frightened away by the acts of hatemongers. To assure our own rights, we must also be able and willing to protect the constitutional rights of all citizens, including those groups we, as individuals, may dislike. Psychologists suggest that rape is a crime of violence; it frequently becomes the means for men who feel belittled and powerless to express their need for control and dominance.
But when substantial numbers of blacks move into a classroom or a neighborhood, whites feel threatened and so reject integration. (7) While black Americans tend to view themselves as victims of white society, white Americans typically no longer acknowledge the persistence of prejudice and dis- 28 Chapter 2 crimination in the lives of blacks. In this way, whites are able to downplay their own responsibility for why blacks tend to have worse jobs, lower incomes, and poorer housing than whites and, at the same time, to justify their own opposition to programs-for example, affirmative actiondesigned to achieve racial parity.
The distorted perception of the reality of life in America can be easily demonstrated by questioning even the most sophisticated individuals about elementary social facts. For example, what percentage of the population of the United States is black? Hispanic? Jewish? According to a recent Gallup national survey, the average American estimates that 30 percent of the population of the United States is black (actually, the figure for those who regard themselves as black or African-American is less than 13 percent); that 25 percent of all Americans are Hispanic (actually, the figure is close to 8 percent); and that 15 percent of our population is Jewish (actually, the figure is only 2 percent maximum).