Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongly anti-secessionist Liberal Party won 72 seats out of 108, a 27-seat increase over its 1966 results. The ruling National Union Party, which had straddled the separatism issue, lost 38 of its 55 seats, while the right-wing federalist Créditiste Party won 12. The separatist Quebec Party actually finished second, with 23% of the popular vote. But because Quebec's representation is heavily weighted in favor of rural voters, the predominantly urban party won only seven seats. Even its leader, René Lévesque, Quebec's best-known separatist, was defeated...
BOND: The physical separatists who speak of a separate state or country will have difficulty with the black community because there is only vaguely spelled out a program going from where they are now to where they want to be. They have not struck an alliance with the other separatist groups in the country. The Chicanos who want a separate state for themselves in the Southwest. The American Indians who want a separate state for themselves in the West. Until the separatists recognize that there are other separatists who really have a prior claim on this land, their programs aren...
...black leaders, all three courses pose risks. A return to purely passive, conventional protest would destroy the morale and thrust of the black movement. Black nationalism, if carried to extremes, could lead to separatist schemes and policies which are unrealistic for an 11% minority that must live with whites. As for "revolution," it is clearly impossible, and irresponsible talk about it, however justified the anger that prompts it, can be dangerous because it may mislead blacks about the extent of their power and may serve to confirm whites in fear and repression. The most hopeful strategy thus seems...
Both are well aware that the North is no promised land. But Mike, at least, wants to get out of Ludowici (population about 2,000), where his father runs a shoe-repair shop in a roadside shack. Mike disdains separatist ideology, but sees his future in terms of heightened black identity: "Whites used to say, 'Respect us because we are beautiful.' Now we are saying: 'O.K., and you respect us because we are black and we are beautiful too.' " Says Rose Marie: "This is a new day and a new time, and they know...
...time being, as the separatists suggest, the best course for blacks may be to reinforce their churches as singularly black institutions, with their own special sense of the Christian message. Even many radicals, indeed, see the separatist stance as a temporary strategy, to be superseded when they can bring their unique spirit to society as a whole. "We've got to bring something more to the table than an appetite," argues Calvin Marshall. Certainly, black Christianity seems determined to do just that...