Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Farrakhan in charge of the African-American agenda, there will be no more King-like integration efforts, no more mushy sentiments like Black and White kids holding hands. Farrakhan & Co, are separatist radicals who believe that there is no justice in America, except for that disbursed by O.J.'s acquittal. Conrad Muhammed declared to the Los Angeles Times, referring to the infamous verdict, "It's a justice system that for a change has worked. The jury believed that that racist character (Fuhrman) laid that evidence." Yet after boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape some years ago, Muhammed told...
...word of a mostly Black jury, then, is acceptable, though that of a white one is not. Such a deduction is far from revelatory--the Nation of Islam has been Black separatist for years. But even worse for our nation's future than such segregationist tendencies are the invectives that roll off the tongues of Nation ministers. Muhammed told students at Emory University in 1991 that "AIDS and cancer are white plots against the Black people." Indeed, Farrakhan and troops seem to be drawing the line for a race...
Kevin Harris, white separatist Randy Weaver's friend, testified before the Senate panel investigating the fatal 1992 siege. Contradicting the previous testimony of federal marshals, Harris said it was the marshals who fired first and started the gunfight that left Weaver's wife, son and a marshal dead...
Former FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts, who has been suspended along with four other officials pending a Justice Department investigation, testified before the Senate panel probing the FBI's 1992 fatal standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver's family. Contradicting previous testimony by the on-scene FBI commander, Potts insisted he never approved the agency's controversial shoot-on-sight rules of engagement...
...marksmen told a skeptical Senate panel that the 1992 fatal shooting of white separatist Randy Weaver's wife by an FBI colleague was justified. Reason? The gun-toting Weavers, caught in a standoff with agents, posed a threat to a circling FBI helicopter. Federal marshals involved in the shootout that precipitated the siege testified that they believe Weaver accidentally killed his son--and not they, as Weaver has charged...