Word: separatist
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...MARCH WAS AN AFFRONT TO ALL THE good and decent people of America who have worked so hard for civil rights and racial harmony over the years. It must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. It is incredible that in 1995 a black separatist and avowed racist like Farrakhan can gather hundreds of thousands of men under the guise of atonement and yet hardly receive a ripple of criticism from across the political landscape. All this chatter about separating the message from the messenger is outrageous and disgusting. There is no separating the message this man brings. LUCI SHAW...
...immune to the attraction of separatism. Look, for example, at the rise of Louis Farrakhan, the leading black separatist in America. Look at the ethnic social policies, the school curriculums, the racially gerrymandered electoral districts that give an official imprimatur to the notion of the primacy of group over nation...
...remain part of Canada, voting 50.6% against secession and 49.4% for it in a special plebiscite. The razor-thin margin consisted of just 52,448 votes out of almost 5 million cast; the 93.4% turnout was a record. One day later, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, announced that he would resign before year's end. But charismatic Quebec politician Lucien Bouchard insisted that the cause of secession is not dead: "The next time will be the right one. And the next time may come sooner than people think...
...then there's Jacques Parizeau, the now on-his-way-out separatist Premier (although he refers to himself grandly as the "Prime Minister"), who tainted his loss by blaming it on "money and the ethnic vote." He told the Los Angeles Times last summer that Quebeckers would be trapped like "lobsters in a pot" once they voted "Yes" to his packed question, further throwing into doubt his sincerity in negotiating with the rest of Canada. I think he just wanted to mint his face on a new Quebec-franc coin. He'd have been the founder of a new nation...
...should be read as a credible opinion poll, and serve as an incentive for action in the years ahead. But by no means should it ever have been read as a serious challenge to Canadian sovereignty. But then, not all things make sense in the emotion-driven world of separatist politics...