Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attitude is shared by all Tutsi. Many made no effort to conceal their contempt for the returning Hutu. Many more, however, seemed to greet the returnees with Ruziga's air of orderly acceptance and restraint--an outlook that may stem from Rwanda's unique social structure. Unlike most African nations, which were cobbled together by colonial mapmakers, Rwanda was a tightly organized kingdom long before the Europeans arrived. A Tutsi god-king headed an elaborate system of civil administration, taxation and military conscription that the Germans and Belgians left largely intact, even as they tightened the screws. When independence came...
...have gone chest to chest over who should run the international peace organization when Boutros-Ghali's term expires Dec. 31. "You're out," says Clinton. "I won't go," answers Boutros-Ghali. "We veto you," responds Clinton. "I'm still the only candidate," retorts Boutros-Ghali. The African bloc can keep submitting the 74-year-old diplomat's name to the Security Council for a second five-year term, and the U.S. can keep vetoing his re-election, but such a fruitless battle of wills is guaranteed to produce only two sure things: more damage to U.N. credibility...
...African-Americans voluntarily served for both sides in the Civil War, surely for a variety of personal reasons, i.e. friendship, location, chance, money. The Confederacy also had Native American nations as allies, and a Cherokee, Stand Watie, served as a brigadier general in the Confederate army. The Confederacy also had a cabinet member who was Jewish. The United States had none of the above at that time...
...first slave holder in America was a free African-American who owned other African-Americans. His name was Anthony Johnson, and the first court case in North America establishing the right to own slaves was brought by him in Northampton County, Virginia, in 1653 with respect to a runaway slave named John Casor. The court's decision established the right to enforce lifetime servitude for the first time in the English American colonies over a person who had committed no crime...
Wang says many Asian-Americans view affirmative action as restitution for discrimination against African-Americans in which they had no part. Supporters of affirmative action, he says, "haven't really shown to Asian-Americans why they should be the victim of a wrong that Caucasians have done to an African-American minority...