Word: supremacist
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...both ways in the battle over civil rights, speaking in a code that signaled his support for segregationist groups but in words so vague that he could later deny that they meant anything at all. The Senator from Mississippi appeared as recently as the 1990s before a white-supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, telling its members that they stand for "the right principles and the right philosophy." When confronted over the remarks later, he denied any "firsthand" knowledge of the group's beliefs. For years, the tactic worked for Lott, who used it mostly in small gatherings...
...public statements regretting the end of Jim Crow. He voted against a federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. "Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," he wrote in a 1981 amicus brief defending Bob Jones University's ban on interracial dating. He has hobnobbed with thinly veiled white-supremacist groups. It took several attempts last week before he could manage to say that segregation is immoral. Everything Lott has done and said in his career suggests he doesn't view the civil rights movement as a vital bedrock of modern America. This moral and political blindness does not preclude...
...past two years, McCarthy has led students on Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trips to the South, where they rebuilt black churches burnt down by white supremacist groups...
More than 100 anti-Semitic, white supremacist and other controversial websites are currently being filtered by the French and German versions of Google, the world’s most popular search engine, according to a new Harvard Law School (HLS) report...
DIED. WILLIAM PIERCE, 68, leading white supremacist ideologue best known for his 1978 racist novel The Turner Diaries, which imagines the violent overthrow of the Federal Government and was found among the possessions of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh; of cancer; in Hillsboro, W.Va. Alarmed by the civil rights movement, the ex-physics professor co-founded the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi group in the country...