The Clinton message has been a sharp contrast for those who have grown weary of destructive racial rhetoric.

The Mayor's critics contend that his tough racial rhetoric has kept whites from moving back to the city, but he dismisses the notion.

But whatever the ifs, ands or buts, the new racial rhetoric is beginning to win the religious right some grudging admiration.

In spite of his muted racial rhetoric, African-Americans are strongly drawn to the President-elect.

The racial rhetoric was escalating.

Their fight has grown to such a pitch that racial rhetoric has flared again.

The self-conscious racial rhetoric pursued throughout the book, the mythic dichotomy between star people and earth people, is a bit of late-20th-century American silliness.

The post-comeback Barry hasn't much changed his ways: He still favors racial rhetoric and Congress-bashing.

Kin terms were infused into racial rhetoric that called for emotional expressions.

We need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades.