He tried to sign a black infielder named Charley Grant with the Orioles in 1901, a time of virulent racism in baseball.
Sonny is undone by his virulent racism and propensity to violence.
You can't compare it to virulent racism or anti-Semitism.
"If in a heartland city with no history of slavery and segregation, you find such virulent racism, it suggests that it is a cancer affecting us all."
There were few signs of poverty or of the virulent racism for which the segregated South had long been known.
North English mostly concentrated on virulent racism.
Despite the increasing popularity of Negro culture, virulent white racism, often by more recent ethnic immigrants, continued to affect African-American communities, even in the North.
And as the film makes abundantly clear, eugenic theory has always been used to justify the most virulent racism in the name of science.
The town's white inhabitants were quick to exhibit virulent anti-Chinese racism.