Word: marches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expanded it hateward as well. Wallace was one of the great political arsonists; no material in America was more flammable than race. He took his magnificent sneer and slurring menace up North to Rust Belt, hard-hat territory and, as if in a century-delayed retaliation for Sherman's march, he scorched the earth with a message of racial contempt and populist economic grievance. In the 1968 election, he took 13% of the popular vote and won five states...
...annual invitation to schoolyard prayer before morning classes begin on the third Wednesday of every September. In fact, it now serves as the school-year kickoff for a rapidly swelling population of weekly campus Bible-study and prayer clubs. Clark compares it to events like the Million Man March and the Promise Keepers, but it has at least one advantage: while enjoying the thrill of a mass event, its participants remain in place and primed to act locally...
...former mayor also commented on New YorkCity's recent Million Youth March, noting that hedisapproved of march organizer Khallid Muhammad...
Applauded at the march were arguments that there's no such thing as permanent weight loss, that fat people are fat because of their genes and not a weakness for Cheez Curls and Ding Dongs, and the diet industry is a $40 billion annual ripoff. Although the media are despised for cheap fat jokes and the glorification of supermodels and other stick people, "our evil enemy is the diet industry," says Smith, who laid into fad diets and the manufacturers of diet drugs with dangerous side effects...
While Smith says NAAFA advocates healthy foods and exercise, you couldn't find a jumping jack or a bean sprout at the march. But 1) they were out in the healthy California sun and 2) there was nothing to eat but a few cookies...