Sentences with phrase «american white supremacy»

Nate's approach isn't just to pull a tough - guy routine: he corners people and earns their confidence, deftly navigating the white power marches and conservative - radio conferences that make up the world of American white supremacy.

Not exact matches

«We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump's support of Nazism and white supremacy.

They had to vote for either the Party of Lincoln, which had abandoned African Americans in Reconstruction's demise, or the Democratic Party, which was the party of white supremacy in the one - party South.

The decision came amid a larger trend of questioning Confederate memorials across the American South, given the Confederacy's legacy of violence, racism and white supremacy.

Of all the evidence in recent years that white supremacy remains imprinted on American life, the shootings were the most indisputable.

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

«So called «Black Codes» were enacted by various southern states to discriminate against black Americans and maintain the system of white supremacy that made slavery possible.

Researcher Seth Stephens - Davidowitz analyzed tens of thousands of profiles of members of Stormfront.org, the online white supremacy site, which gets 200,000 - 400,000 visits a month from Americans, and found — based on members» self - reportings — that site users tend to be young, mostly male, and from predominantly white states like Montana, Alaska and Idaho.

Killmonger's fatalistic, inevitably violent outlook — a byproduct of American militarism and white supremacy — is not presented as the end - all solution.

One of the film's strategies is to pair the voice of Samuel L. Jackson intoning selections from Baldwin's writing with relevant images salvaged from American history, including segments that highlight the white supremacy encoded in Hollywood narratives.

In contemporary American society there still as movements that advocate extremist reactionary currents, professing white supremacy and nationalism.

Americans may like to imagine that we left White Supremacy behind with the 1960s, but it is clear that the hatred still seethes within many of our countrymen, and it is very clear that it boiled over in Dylann Roof spurring him to annihilate members of the Charleston black community as they studied the Bible in one of the cornerstone institutions of that community.

In fact, it does just the opposite - promote white supremacy and increases low self - esteem in African American children.

If Jesse Owens is rightfully the most famous American athlete of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, repudiating Adolf Hitler's notion of white supremacy by winning gold in four events, the gold - medal - winning effort by the eight - man rowing team from the University of Washington remains a remarkable story.

Recent protests against white supremacy and Confederate monuments in the American south have made it clear that the complexities of our history continue to influence and confound contemporary perspectives on race, rights and equality.

This jarring convergence of national pride with the shameful misrepresentation of African Americans as well as the inclusion of one famous black historical figure raises questions about historical «tokenism» as a distraction from the centrality of white supremacy to US history.

His rousing speeches on social and educational advancement for African Americans inspired many from that generation to focus on economic prosperity within their own communities, though millions chose to leave the South to seek better opportunities outside the grips of white supremacy.

Tafur's work uses representational symbolism to unearth the oppressive roots of America's founding, illuminating how institutions such as white supremacy and misogyny are not just present here today, but are intrinsically American.

Reading this calls to mind the poet Claudia Rankine's Racial Imaginary Institute, founded in 2016 to investigate the ways in which the structure of white supremacy in American society influences our culture.