Word: supremacist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Princeton scholar considers rage and the Black body to be inextricably linked because, "White supremacist ideology is fundamentally about the degradation of the Black body...
...handicap Veep has not yet agreed to appear, but Al Gore, who wants his job, is one of the early guests. So are Bo Jackson, the retired two-sport flash, white supremacist Thomas Metzger, and the usual show-biz suspects, including Liz Taylor, Elton John and Tim Robbins. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is $ scheduled, and California senate candidate Dianne Feinstein is already taped. Whoopi wants to reason together with Pat Buchanan, who hopes to wall off the Mexican border, and with Pat Robertson, who believes that feminism leads to witchcraft. (Is Robertson right? Or does sanctimoniousness lead to prattle? Tune...
Whoopi thinks the talk show is "probably not a great career move. I should be riding the crest, doing films." But, she says, she wanted to find out what's on people's minds. Metzger, the white supremacist, told her that separation of the races is important, "and I said, 'Where are you people going, because I sure as hell ain't leaving.' I'm not going to change his mind, but I think as long as we keep a dialogue up, you can see where their hands are. They can't be out in the streets doing the other...
Despite a vow that he would never surrender, white supremacist Randy Weaver quit his mountain cabin in northern Idaho, ending an 11-day siege that resulted in the deaths of his wife Vicki, his son Samuel and a deputy U.S. marshal, William Degan. Weaver's defiance began in January 1991, when he failed to appear in court on charges of selling two shotguns to an undercover agent. Nineteen months later, those charges have at least one additional count: assaulting a federal officer. Gerry Spence, who represented former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, will defend Weaver...
Baden's exhumation last June of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers appears to meet that test. Although white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was charged with the 1963 murder of Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home, two juries deadlocked, and Beckwith, who denies the charge, went free. Last year prosecutors reopened the case, but the original autopsy report was missing. So Baden was called in to dig up the surprisingly well-preserved body and do another autopsy. If Beckwith is retried, Baden will probably testify, and a conviction could lead to the reopening of other unsolved cases. "There...