"But somebody in the black community should be rejecting these bigoted statements."

"It's not a bigoted statement," Mr. Cunningham replied.

"A bigoted statement, if I was directing it to you, or anybody else in this thing, in another context, yes, would be bigoted."

Another major character in the play is a Southern redneck relief pitcher who makes bigoted statements to the press.

Yet as the state's top political leader his duty is to speak against bigoted statements or actions, even when the messengers are other important Republican officials.

But Mr. Shanker's union, in turn, demonized its opponents by eagerly circulating their bigoted statements.

Mrs. Clinton again attacked Mr. Buchanan for making what she described as bigoted and anti-Semitic statements.

Dinkins surrogates have used bigoted statements to rally the black vote; the Rev. William Jones's comment about "fascist" elements in the Giuliani campaign is an example.

The complaint accused Hsieh of linking the company to "hateful, bigoted and untrue statements" concerning Scientology.

A review of his writings does not turn up any blatantly bigoted statements.