Word: segregationist
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Kennedy, executive director of Facing the Challenge, a non-profit organization he founded in 1985, said his group's goal was to "dismantle segregationist policies" that lead to the popular assumption that the disabled cannot have jobs, education or families...
...uncle among former Mississippi Governors, was elected state auditor, replacing Mabus. Said Johnson: "This has been a mandate that Mississippians want to see our state move forward." In other rites of passage, John Stennis, 86, has announced his retirement after 40 years in the Senate. And Ross Barnett, the segregationist Governor who only under the guns of federal troops in 1962 admitted James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi, died last week...
...response to all this, the pugnacious Botha could and did invoke the Afrikaner traditions of solidarity and defiance against what he has called "cynical and sanctimonious antagonists abroad." But what has turned many Afrikaners against the segregationist ideology is that it simply does not work very well in an industrialized modern society. The white-run economy needs blacks, and it needs them in the same buildings with whites, working side by side. Botha is an autocrat, not someone who enjoys bowing to pressure, but even he admits that he dislikes and avoids the word apartheid. He prefers "cooperative coexistence...
...surprisingly, they don't find out. Neither do we, mainly because Lee works with silly dialogue and stock situations. At one point, the Black patriarch reiterates white segregationist arguments and then, moments later, discovers that daughter Bridget has been having an affair with Billy Brown, the white housemaid's boy. He flies off in a rage, swearing revenge upon the poor kid. These actors do their best with this warp-speed melodrama and even manage a few comic moments, but Lee's material doesn't allow any great depth of characterization...
...post civil-rights and post-segregationist environment, there is less a driving force and more a search for collective cohesion and identity among Blacks," says the chairman of the Afro-Am Department...