December 17, 1988
Let's pause in our hysteria of criticism of Dorothy Tillman and look at a quick way that the press can contribute greatly to lessening racial polarization in this city. It ought to drop the term "white ethnics" as a blanket for white conservatives. Besides the fallacies behind its assumptions (all whites of European ethnicity are right-wingers), the term is a deliberate political manipulation. Consider the city council. Why do the press and pundits refer to the Burkes, Vrdolyaks, Stones, et al, as "white...