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- <text id=89TT2046>
- <title>
- Aug. 07, 1989: A Resentful Voice
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 07, 1989 Diane Sawyer:Is She Worth It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 15
- A Resentful Voice
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Shirley Walters Kiel
- </p>
- <p> Shirley Walters Kiel, 55, is a member of the St. Louis
- school board and an ardent opponent of busing and affirmative
- action.
- </p>
- <p> "Most people in (predominantly white) south St. Louis
- resent being told they have to put their children on the bus,
- and the schools are going down, down, down. A lot of people
- perceive that when quite a few blacks move in, there is a lot
- more crime, and in (mostly black) north St. Louis there are more
- gangs and drugs. The main thing is that a lot of white people
- in our country came over after the Civil War and don't feel
- responsible for slavery. I resent affirmative action and quota
- systems. Quite a few white people get angry that black people
- are getting preferential treatment. We've done enough to make
- up for any wrongs."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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