Word: apartheiders
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...first time, South Africans of all races were citizens. Apartheid was gone, reduced to rubble, as if in one of those slow-motion demolitions that bring down massive, obsolete monstrosities to make way for new construction...
...predict South Africa will grow so strong that one day it will apply sanctions to American apartheid...I am happy Mandela is in the driver's seat there, even as black people here remain road kill...I can see the day coming when the president of south Africa will declare the racial condition of the United States, the world's richest nation, as evil, immoral and un-Christian." Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson...
...past few days have been the kind that vindicate dreamers all around the world. Like the fall of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, the death of apartheid is a monumental step toward the realization of human liberties...
...repression may occur as a struggle for power ensues). Free from fear that bashing Beijing would reignite the MFN debate, the President could openly embrace China's dissidents and encourage U.S. firms to voluntarily tie their China business to improved human-rights practices, as many American companies did when apartheid flourished in South Africa. If conditions so worsened that punitive actions were called for, the U.S. could champion cutbacks in international lending; China is currently the leading recipient of World Bank loans...
Within weeks of her nomination's withdrawal, however, Guinier found an unlikely ally. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ruled that districts like North Carolina's serpentine 12th were "bizarre" and might be challenged as perpetuating "political apartheid." Many voting-rights champions, facing language that seemed to question their very enterprise, were stymied...