white supremacist

noun

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Examples: white supremacist in a Sentence

Definition of white supremacist

: a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races

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white supremacy

noun

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Examples of white supremacist in a Sentence

White supremacists were convicted of hate crimes.

Recent Examples of white supremacist from the Web

BlacKkKlansman premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and opens in the US on August 10, one year after the white supremacist march in Charlottesville.

— alissa wilkinson, Vox, "Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman draws a ham-fisted line from white supremacy’s past to its present," 15 May 2018
Pennsylvania State University was sued for blocking a campus speech by white supremacist Richard Spencer.

— dan spinelli, Philly.com, "He was a competitive snowboarder accused of defrauding investors. Now this Christian preacher has area colleges on edge," 11 May 2018
Last month, suit-and-tie white supremacist Jared Taylor, founder of the race-realism rag American Renaissance, was scheduled to appear at the University of Alabama.

— mari uyehara, GQ, "How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists," 8 May 2018
The massacre and its quickness recall the 2015 Charleston shooting in which white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black people in a church basement, Ramsey says.

— mahita gajanan, Time, "An Expert's Take on the Symbolism in Childish Gambino’s Viral ‘This Is America’ Video," 7 May 2018
Federal authorities have charged 57 members of white supremacist gangs in a drug trafficking and kidnapping conspiracy.

— matthew martinez, star-telegram, "57 white supremacist gang members charged in 'staggering' Texas meth case, feds say | Fort Worth Star-Telegram," 1 May 2018
The group, however, frequently gathers in Drake Town near Temple, Ga., at a white supremacist bar.

— doug stanglin, USA TODAY, "Georgia town braces for face off between neo-Nazi, anti-fascist groups," 20 Apr. 2018
And in 2015, white supremacist Dylan Roof killed nine black parishioners in a mass shooting in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

— libby solomon, baltimoresun.com, "Open doors: Amid gun debate, Baltimore County houses of worship balance security with welcome," 21 Mar. 2018
The Anti-Defamation League has described the Aryan Circle as a dangerous white supremacist prison gang based primarily in Texas.

— Fox News, "The Latest: Records show alleged gang member pleaded guilty," 20 Mar. 2018

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