Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ethnic studies would complicate our perceptions on race. And that's what all good scholarship does. It helps us see the shades of grey in every picture. That doesn't sound very separatist. It sounds like people just want to learn more about other people, maybe get rid of some stereotypes...
...case, I'm kind of surprised ethnic studies is called separatist when the students who are supporting it, at Harvard and across the nation, come from all different racial and ethnic backgrounds...
...States government can prove that the documents ... are not the law." The Freemen also sent out a videotape with Gritz in which they attempt to explain their actions. Gritz said he had not seen the tape, and called the negotiations "verbal judo all day." Gritz insisted Sunday that white separatist Randy Weaver accompany him on his second trip, but authorities in Washington refuse to let Weaver play a role in the stand-off. After his Saturday meetings with the Freemen, Gritz told reporters the anti-government group, which he reported numbers 22 people, may be running low on food...
...came to the U.S. to indulge his fascination with the Civil War, racial politics and guns. In 1991 Strassmeir began to live on and off in Elohim City, a far-right religious community in eastern Oklahoma, where patriarch Robert G. Millar preaches his own variation of white-separatist ideology (northern Europeans are the real chosen people, with a "divine right to authority," and so on). Millar acted as Snell's "spiritual adviser" on death row. After Snell's execution, his body was brought back to Elohim City for burial...
...escalating fbi presence around the Clark farm, Justus Township is no longer merely the headquarters for the Freemen's crooked amalgam of extremism and thievery. It's also the first major testing ground for federal law enforcement in the nervous aftermath of two disasters--the deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian inferno near Waco, Texas, in which more than 75 people were killed. In its handling of such standoffs, the Justice Department is at pains to re-establish the line between force and recklessness. The word this time is play...