From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (Stephen Tice)
Subject: Berlet vs. Dallas Morning News  (was ...Stockdale & Racism)
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In article <1992Oct3.193907.16809@cs.ucla.edu>, 
pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes...

>------------- FORWARDED POSTING -------------------------------------
>------------- written by Chip Berlet --------------------------------
> 
>Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
>From: NLG Civil Liberties Committee <cberlet@igc.apc.org>
>Subject: Perot's VP Stockdale & Racism
>Message-ID: <1992Oct3.165542.19682@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
>Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:55:42 GMT
> 
>/* Written  6:32 am  Oct  3, 1992 by cberlet in cdp:elections.usa */
>/* ---------- "Perot's VP Stockdale & Racism" ---------- */
> 
>Stockdale and the Rockford Institute
> 
>by Chip Berlet
> 
>Perot's choice for running mate, James Bond Stockdale, has a 
>history of afilliations that raise questions concerning his 
>sensitivity to issues of racial justice and sexism.
> 
>Stockdale served as the president of the Citadel, a southern 
>military academy that gained noteriety for allowing racially-
>based harassment of African-American cadets and for its policies 
>discriminating against women.

From the Dallas Morning News (31 Mar) 
"Perot fills ticket with former POW":

	...Mr. Stockdale began a career in academia
	upon his return, serving as president of the
	Naval War College in Newport, R.I., where he
	tried with some success, to introduce the
	study of ethics to military training. 

	...He briefly was president of the Citadel in
	Charleston, S.C. But he left in less than a 
	year when the board of directors frowned on
	his efforts to control hazing.

	[and from earlier in the article....]

	...Mr. Stockdale may have been a heroic figure
	-- he received the Medal of Honor for his 
	suicide attempt -- but he was also known
	as a compassionate man who avoided judging 
	others.

	
>More troubling is Stockdale's current service on the Board of the 
>Rockford Institute, a leading right-wing think that helped... 
 ^^^^^^^^

Again from the same DMN article...

	...Since then, he has been a senior fellow at
	the Hoover Institution, a conservative think 
            ^^^^^^
	think tank at Stanford...

>...Rockford promotes a Euro-centric brand of white supremacy, 
>considers Jews to have brought an "alien" culture to the U.S., 
>and is anti-immigrant. Stockdale's position on the board of the 
>Rockford Institute is certain to raise questions about his own 
>political beliefs in these matters, and at the very least shows 
>an alarming lack of sensitivity to racial issues.
> 
>------------ END OF FORWARDED POSTING ------------------------


Believe who you like, Berlet or the Dallas Morning News. As far
as I'm concerned they are both misleading sources of information.

James Stockdale has published many books and articles. So I suggest
going straight to the source for some answers.


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