The country's small white minority and other minorities participate freely in the political process.

White Ecuadorans of European non-colonial non-Spanish origin are a minority within the White Ecuadoran group, and are simply termed white.

Generally, however, the vast majority of stock used today is " normal " ( visible spectrum ) color, although " normal " black and white also commands a significant minority percentage.

During his early presidency Kaunda was an outspoken supporter of the anti-apartheid movement and opposed white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.

* Umkhonto we Sizwe – Xhosa, for the " spear of the nation " was originally the military wing of the African National Congress ( a multiracial, center-left political party ) which fought against the white minority led Apartheid regime in South Africa.

The majority of its population was African, but it was dominated by a strong minority of white Portuguese origin.

Fraser opposed white minority rule in Rhodesia.

Focus on apartheid white minority rule in South Africa brought tensions between East and West, the Soviet Union officially supported the overthrow of apartheid while the West and the US in particular maintained official neutrality on the matter.

However forceful actions by the US against apartheid South Africa were diminished under US President Ronald Reagan, as the Reagan administration feared the rise of communist revolution in South Africa as had happened in Zimbabwe against white minority rule.

The modern mining, farming, and industrial sectors of the economy, controlled by the white minority, have affected traditional African society without transforming it.

The minority white population is primarily of South African, British, and German descent, with a few Portuguese.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

They are now very much in a minority, but some landlords prefer to separate the manual workers from the better-dressed white collar workers or diners in the lounge or restaurant.

Following a dispute over the terms for the granting of full sovereignty, the British self-governing colony of Rhodesia, governed by a predominantly white minority government, unilaterally declared independence in 1965.

The springbok was a national symbol of South Africa under white minority rule ( including a significant period prior to the establishment of apartheid ).

By 2010 suburbs increasingly gained people in racial minority groups, as many members of minority groups became better educated, more affluent, and sought more favorable living conditions compared to inner city areas ; many white Americans also moved back to city centers.

So-called " Confederate Southern Americans ", defined as white Christian descendents of those resident in the Confederate States of America at the onset of the Civil War ( preferably having Scots or Scots-Irish descent ), are seeking a " natural right to self-determination " by claiming " oppressed minority " status through Neo-Confederate groups such as the League of the South.

William G. Sinkford, is African-American, making Unitarian Universalism one of the first traditionally white denominations to be headed by a member of a racial minority.

Mandela emerged as a leading opponent of the white minority rule government during the later years of her husband's long imprisonment ( August 1963 – February 1990 ).

The former of the two was almost exclusively in the hands of the white minority until the highly controversial and disastrous land redistribution program that started in 2000.

Abroad many of Zambia's neighbouring countries were still colonies or under white minority rule.

After independence in 1964, Zambia was one of the most vocal opponents to white minority rule and colonialism.

In Zimbabwe, native English speakers ( mainly the white and Coloured minority ) have a similar speech pattern to that of South Africa.

This led to a stranglehold on the state by a white rural minority.

The white people fall back bitterly before the black horde ; ;

This was bitterly noted by Davis, who claimed the invention of the cool style and resented the success that was later enjoyed — in large part because of the media's attention — by white " cool jazz " musicians ( Mulligan and Dave Brubeck in particular ).

It is a story about racism and segregation in a black U. S Army regiment with white officers deep in the Jim Crow South, in a time and place where a black officer is unprecedented and bitterly resented by nearly everyone.

He bitterly complained that the suspensions he received from the NBA were unfair given the fact that Chris Mullin was never disciplined by the league for his well-documented alcohol problem, implying that this " double standard " existed because Richardson is African-American while Mullin is white, and became a frequently cited example of destructive lifestyles in the NBA.

Republicans had taken over the state governments in the South during Reconstruction, but were unpopular with the overwhelmingly Democratic white southerners, many of whom resented what they perceived as interference from the North and blamed the Republicans for the Civil War.

Although Mexican-American men were overrepresented in the military, many white servicemen resented seeing so many Latinos socializing in clothing many considered unpatriotic and extravagant in wartime.

Many citizens of the white community resented his father's efforts to educate Negro students, but Lee De Forest had several friends among the Negro children of the town.

Allen and Absalom Jones, also a Methodist preacher, resented the white congregants ' segregating the blacks for worship and prayer.

Many of Mississippi's white residents deeply resented the outsiders and any attempt to change their society.

She resented that white teachers were paid $ 80 a month in public schools when she was paid only $ 30 a month.

Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, said that, as a Mexican American, he deeply resented " being called a racist and branded a white man ," to which Brown replied, " you all look alike to me.

His essays were resented by many white Southerners and generated much controversy ..

Officials of the state of Mississippi and local groups such as the Ku Klux Klan resented these efforts to change their society of white supremacy, and activists worked at high risk.

He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.

His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.

Brown met with a campaign of resistance from white Southerners, and for decades the federal courts attempted to enforce Brown's mandate against repeated attempts at circumvention.

Despite the efforts of groups like the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate black voters and white Republicans, assurance of federal support for democratically elected southern governments meant that most Republican voters could both vote and rule in confidence.

Grant favored limited use of federal troops, lest they engender the notion he was acting as a military dictator ; he was also concerned that increased military pressure in the South might cause white supremacists in the North to bolt from the Republican Party.

Like the federal buildings for the executive and judicial branches, it is built in the distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior.

The painting depicts a young African American girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.

Although federal troops escorted the students between classes, the students were still teased and even attacked by white students when the soldiers were not around.

Suffrage activists, especially Harriet Burton Laidlaw and Rose Livingston, worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime.

In the summer of 1790, McGillivray and 29 other Muscogee chiefs signed the Treaty of New York, on behalf of the ' Upper, Middle and Lower Creek and Seminole composing the Creek nation of Indians ,' ceding a large portion of their lands to the federal government and promising to return fugitive slaves, in return for federal recognition of Muscogee sovereignty and promises to evict white settlers.

Other Order members, most notably the late David Lane, were all captured and sent to federal prisons, where they still continue to voice their support for white nationalism and racial separatist ideals.

Using voter intimidation, white Democrats took control of the state legislature by the end of the century ; they passed state electoral laws and a new constitution that essentially disfranchised most blacks, a situation that lasted until the federal legislation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The federal courthouse was the site of the 1966-1967 trial of suspects in the murder of Chaney and two other activists ; it was the first time a white jury convicted a white official of a civil rights killing.

The tribes were forced to cede their land to the federal government and move farther west in 1818, and in 1820 the area was opened to white settlers.

The more expensive lots to the south were purchased by white working-class families, many of whom were employed as federal government clerks.

A federal indictment has charged a white supremacist from Virginia, Bill White, with " communicating threats in interstate commerce ", based on White's emails to Tyson and phone calls to Tyson's wife in 2008.

In 1969, a special federal census showed a population of 12, 252, including 5, 982 white males, 6, 249 white females, seven non-white males and 14 non-white females.

This led to the formation of numerous private militias, and ultimately during the late 1860s the KKK in Navasota, and on one occasion a tense confrontation between federal soldiers and a crowd of local white citizens occurred there.

He was elected by Wyandot, white traders, and outside interests who wished to preempt the federal government ’ s organization of the territory and to benefit from settlement of Kansas by white settlers.