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Whites in Zimbabwe sought to preserve their position in the country by supporting democracy, civil rights, the rule of law and opposing to arbitrary transfer of property through land reforms, quite a transformation from the position that most whites had taken in the period before independence.
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Whites and Zimbabwe
Whites in Zimbabwe controlled critical areas of the national economy.
After criticising corruption in the party, in August 1984 Tekere was elected to the Central Committee of ZANU-PF and carried shoulder-high from the Congress ; he was also being supported by the Whites in Zimbabwe after opposing the farm squats by ZANU-PF ) supporters which he described as " donga watonga " ( chaotic government ).
Whites and sought
He contends that because of European fears of a unified revolt of Native Americans and African Americans, the colonists encouraged hostility between the ethnic groups: " Whites sought to convince Native Americans that African Americans worked against their best interests.
Mōri sought to strengthen the economic base of the region and increase local production with his Three Whites campaign ( salt, rice, and paper ).
Mōri sought to strengthen the economic base of the region and increase local production with his Three Whites campaign ( salt, rice, and paper ).
Whites and their
The final escalation towards war began in early January 1918, as each military or political act of the Reds or the Whites resulted in a corresponding counteraction by their opponents.
Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.
After this fierce combat, with more than 50 % losses in some of the attacking units, the Whites re-organized their troops and their plans, and resumed the attack in the early hours of 3 April.
He saw Africans as inferior to Whites especially in regards to their intellect, and embued with unnatural sexual appetites, but described Native Americans as equals to whites.
Hence, many of these countries expressed their support for the Whites, including the provision of troops and supplies.
Spanish-speaking Blacks began to immigrate in numbers from the West Indies as indentured servants in the mid-17th century, but White fears at their growing numbers led to their terms of indenture being raised from seven years, as with Whites, to ninety-nine years.
Thus, the " Dog Husband " myth carries the value of a cargo cult: " by offering their favors to the dog-like Whites the Inuit daughters serve as mediators in obtaining their desirable goods.
Mexicans, African Americans, and Whites had their boundaries.
The correlation between the price of cotton ( the principal product of the area at that time ) and the number of lynchings of Black men by Whites ranged from-0. 63 to-0. 72, suggesting that a poor economy induced White people to take out their frustrations by attacking an outgroup.
National organizations played their role, exposing the problems, but it was local organizations and individuals who implemented these rights and were not fearful of reactionary Whites who wanted to keep segregation alive.
So the final was won for the third time by the All Whites beating their historical rivals 1-0 in Auckland with a late Ryan Nelsen goal.
Rush drew the conclusion that " Whites should not tyrannize over, for their disease should entitle them to a double portion of humanity.
As the Reds had murdered some 1, 100 people in their zone of control ( the so-called Red terror ), the Whites retaliated ruthlessly, executing some 7, 370 people after the recapture of the Red areas ( the so-called White terror ).
Indeed, Reds and Whites are only rarely mentioned in the surviving literature, although their continued activity is documented in inscriptions and in curse-tablets.
In 1961, a young Abraham Quintanilla and his band " The Dinos " are rejected by a white restaurant owner for an audition due to their " Whites Only " policy.
Until the 1970s, the tribe was frequently referred to as the " Jackson Whites ", which, according to legend ( folklore or myth ) was shorthand for " Jacks and Whites ", reflecting their multiracial ancestry.
Whites feared resistance to their domination.
A defeat to Carmarthen Town in the Final of the Welsh League Cup compounded a trophyless season for The Whites, although European qualification was gained by their runner-up finish in the Welsh Premier League.
Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage.
Whites and position
The Nation of Islam, explains that Fard's teaching helped to reduce the image of whites in the mind of Blacks and at the same time raise that of Blacks from a position of inferiority, within the thinking of Blacks and Whites.
The Whites wanted to keep from alienating any potential supporters and allies, and thus saw an exclusively monarchist position as a detriment to their cause and recruitment.
This influence began when former Scotland international Bobby Clark returned to the U. S. after his 1994 – 96 stint as All Whites head coach to take the head coaching job at Stanford University ( he now holds the same position at Notre Dame ).
Whites and country
These fiestas celebrates the spirit of racial diversity in the country, in the same way as the Carnival of Blacks and Whites in Pasto, which originally initiated in Popayán during the slavery period as a way of escaping the racial discrimination prevailing at the time.
* The Whites, 1980s country music vocal group
Though he courageously fought for his country in World War II, upon his return home from the war, Williams was savagely beaten by a group of angry whites at a bus station for drinking from a water fountain marked for " Whites Only ".
In South Carolina, for instance ," Whites were far likelier to name Clinton than Obama as being most qualified to be commander in chief, likeliest to unite the country and most apt to capture the White House in November.
Whites and by
An artillery school set up by the anti-socialist " Whites " during the Finnish Civil War, 1918
* Germany gave direct military support to Finnish independence by training Finnish Jägers and successfully intervened in Finnish Civil War in favor of the nationalist Whites.
The war was fought from 27 January to 15 May 1918 between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the " Reds " (, ), and the forces of the non-socialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the " Whites " (, ).
The Whites — dominated by peasants and middle-and upper-class factions, in particular upper-class Swedish speakers — received marked military assistance from the German Empire.
A general offensive by the Whites ( whose Guards ' total force was about the same as that of the Red Guards ) began on 15 March 1918, bolstered by the intervention of the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division and the 3, 000-strong Detachment Brandenstein of the German army.
The battles of Tampere and Viipuri, won by the Whites, and the Battle of Helsinki, won by German troops, were the decisive military actions of the war.
In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.
Initial frontlines and offensives of the Civil War at the beginning of February ( area controlled by the Reds in red, and by the Whites in blue )
The January Uprising, joined and led after the initial period by the Whites, was fought by partisan units against an overwhelming enemy advantage.
Inter-generational IQ differences among Whites and across nations were larger than the Black-White IQ Gap and could not be accounted for by genetic factors, which, if anything, should have reduced IQ, according to scholars he references.
He posits that the Black-White IQ score gap can be entirely explained by environmental factors if " the average environment for Blacks in 1995 matches the quality of the average environment for Whites in 1945.
" He summarizes his rejection of the theory that Blacks are genetically inferior to Whites by stating that " Nothing at present coerces rational belief.
The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.
When said biases are accounted, the original hypothesis — an ordering in skull volume ranging from Blacks to Mongols to Whites — is unsupported by the data.
The political scene in Uruguay became split between two parties: the conservative Blancos ( Whites ) headed by Manuel Oribe, representing the agricultural interests of the countryside ; and the liberal Colorados ( Reds ) led by Fructuoso Rivera, representing the business interests of Montevideo.
** Whites by Norman Rush
According to Dixie's Forgotten People: the South's Poor Whites, by J. Wayne Flynt, geophagy was quite common among poor whites in the South-eastern United States.
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