Word: separatist
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...Catalonia sees the king in Madrid with different eyes than Catalonia would see a president in Madrid," he says. As evidence, in 1979 the sovereign became the first in over 500 years to address the parliament of the highly separatist Basque region...
...some ways, Clark's vision appeared simplistic. Separatism of all kinds was anathema to Clark; he viewed all separatist movements as racism, and racism as "ignorant superstition." His vision only included desegregation and the affirmation of the importance of diversity--he had no tactics planned. When asked what he wanted educators to do. Clark answered in a tired voice, "I don't know, that's why I'm here...
Until his incendiary words burst into national headlines, Farrakhan, 50, was-to whites, at least-the obscure leader of a fringe movement. A onetime nightclub singer known as the Charmer, Farrakhan in 1955 joined the puritanical (no smoking or drinking) Nation of Islam, a black separatist group founded by Elijah Muhammad in the 1930s. Once 250,000-members strong, the Nation of Islam split apart upon Muhammad's death in 1975. His son Imam W. Deen Muhammad renamed the group the American Muslim Mission, rejected many of his father's teachings and began admitting whites. Farrakhan formed...
...doctrine articulated in the report also carries a note of naivete, for it fails to address the problem that the College and minority students have consistently interpreted events differently, and will probably continue to do so. What the administration views as "separatist," students may consider simply "pluralist" or "diverse"--goals the College has forcefully supported...
Last spring, minority students went head to head with the College over whether or not to list minority orientation events on the freshman week calendar. The College considered the events "separatist;" the students did not. While Fox's report goes a long way toward clarifying the administration's guiding philosophy on racial issues, it fails to offer administrators a better means of hearing--and understanding--student views...