Word: separatist
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...interesting that throughout the torturous months that gripped Canada in the run-up to the Quebec referendum, no serious challenge to the simplistic and unjustifiable definition of a separatist "victory"--a mere 50 percent of the vote--was posed...
...after Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau announced his resignation over barely losing the secession referendum, it looks as though Canada may soon be dealing with an even more formidable separatist. Leaders of the Parti Quebecois are already trying to revive their push for secession under the banner of Lucien Bouchard, the movement's charismatic co-leader. Since Parizeau's decision to leave Tuesday, at least two potential replacements have said they would defer to a Bouchard candidacy. The Parti Quebecois, which took power in Quebec last year, chooses its leader through a vote of all 150,000 members. TIME's William...
This is not the first time Quebeckers have been asked to choose the fate of their province. In 1980, when the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) last held power, Quebeckers rejected the vague notion of remaining in "sovereignty-association" with the rest of Canada by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent...
...came away with the thought--melancholy, unhopeful--that it is getting to be time for Americans to clarify their minds about integration. Time for blacks and whites to stop indulging themselves--as Farrakhan does--in separatist fantasies and to return to the text of that infinitely superior speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the march on Washington in 1963. Time to return to the ideal of an individualist, integrated, color-blind society--and to understand that that ideal will require yet more time and hard work. But perhaps I also am guilty of a sentimentality without a program...
...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...