Sentences with phrase «black stands for»

The black stands for the mine shaft and seems to signify death, the blues are the sea and sky, the red signals life and danger.

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So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

So what can you expect if you stand in line for a BCBS on Black Friday?

But he becomes increasingly anguished when we talk about Starbucks, not because of Schultz's missteps — he's proud of the company for taking a stand — but because it solidified to him how little support there is for black issues in general.

«My impression is American corporations are generally more eager to stand for gay rights than black rights, and they ought to be equally progressive,» he says.

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Sports Illustrated could have chosen Colin Kaepernick, who protested discrimination against blacks by refusing to stand for the National Anthem.

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If my convictions are not to talk to black people and I follow through with this am I then to be commended for standing up for my convictions?

I was honored that such a distinguished collection of Catholic intellectuals would stand in unity with their black brothers and sisters in defense of life, family, and justice for the poor.

oh no, blacks are scrambling around not knowing what they stand for anymore since their black pres. came out of the closet.

We see the scenes every Black Friday: shoppers standing in line for hours, the doors bursting open, elbows and expletives flying, pushing, shoving, waved weapons, threatened lives.

Discrimination in each and every area of life in the society was expressed, bus seats were reserved for the Whites, Blacks had to stand, only minor jobs were allowed to Blacks, separate churches for Blacks etc..

I wrote a widely - read piece for Christianity Today, asking white Christians to examine their privilege, recognize that racism persists, humbly listen to black perspectives on race, and follow Jesus» footsteps by standing in cross-cultural solidarity with black people.

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

Gays, atheists, crybaby liberals, «mentally challenged», and anybody else that wants to can cause this to happen., MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS whether you are white, black, brown, yellow, red or mixed, YOU BETTER START STANDING UP FOR YOURSELVES OR WE WILL BE DESTROYED.

Mr. Graham does has the right to speak and stand up for what he chooses, wow I guess he was not standing up for civil rights for blacks.

While the flustered bailiff searched for her in the witness room and the halls, the ancient black woman, her countenance ruined by many cares, got up from the spectators» section of the courtroom, where she had been listening to all preceding testimony, and gravely made her way to the stand.

The black people in South Africa chafe in their chains; some of them are taken off the streets and left in cages, four feet wide, four feet high, four feet deep, left there for months, not enough room to stretch out, not enough room to stand up.

«I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,» Kaepernick told NFL.com.

It is an alternative from which bad Christians and agnostics alike have begun to shrink in horror, for even if the Church had no more within her to give the modern age, even so would she be a better light to men than the black slavery of the spirit which has arisen out of the East, and stands upon the shores of the West.

One April Sunday, Richard and fellow black Methodists decided they wouldn't stand for prejudice anymore.

I can't stand the woman and all she stands for in her public and political life, but I think we should let that particular e-mail find it's way into the black hole of «this was no one's business.»

Whether one examines church attendance, election results, rates of intermarriage, or attitudes about dating, one fact stands out: the American melting pot is alive and well for American blacks, just as it was in the past for Italians, Jews, and Asians, to name just a few.

A resurrected, morally upright black people will be able to «stand up» and «do something for themselves instead of sitting around and waiting for white people to solve our problems and tell us we are free.»

It is a shame, however, that the same churches that brought black Americans together to stand up for their Civil Rights often have a hard time coming to terms with the oppression of other minorities.

Well, if Baa baa black sheep is all that stands between my son and stunted mental development, he shall have it sung to him at every possible opportunity - until I am arrested for inciting racial hatred.

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

It makes no difference they will vote for him for the fact that he is black whether or not they stand against him on this issue.

... you're one of those folks who can't stand having a black man for president., a sore head loser.

Thus today he stands along side the neighbor, being for him, along side the black, along side of all sorts of groups, to love them, not by apologetics or evangelism, but in honesty and faithfulness.

Tell me something, if the Catholic church rulled the mark of cain refered to black people, and thus would only pay for insurance for their white employees, and the Obama administration said that was not permissable; would you be defending their right to stand on principle, defending their right to deny insurance for their black employees on principle, and complaining about the cost of insuring their black employees?

Washington (CNN)- Addressing his large, mostly black congregation on Sunday morning, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith did not mince words about where he stood on President Barack Obama's newly announced support for same - sex marriage: The church is against it, he said, prompting shouts of «Amen!»

By taking this approach to understanding social forces, a way may be open for developing a social ethic and pastoral praxis that recognizes the complex character of collective power in black people's experience of oppression.2 As McClendon has made clear, the idea of a «social ethic» must not stand alone.

As they watch Malvolio, the clowns perform a slapstick ballet, popping out regularly from behind the long black tapestries that stand in for scenery, cracking jokes, bickering, threatening, and bundling each other into hiding when they get hotheaded enough to become conspicuous.

Newsflash for these people: the rest of America, even those who aren't gay, female, black, or Hispanic, are not going to stand by and watch while the Republicans destroy the economy and force their narrow - minded theocracy on the rest of us.

For it is precisely God's purpose that stands opposed to any deep ecumenical approach between the black and white churches of America.

At a recent interfaith event in Cairo, a black - robed, long - bearded Coptic Orthodox priest stood at the podium and abandoned a standard Christian introduction used for centuries.

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And black bean quinoa veggie burgers are a wonderful stand - in for traditional burgers on Meatless Mondays.

Its also a nice dinner for guests, and we serve it over black wild rice which stands up to it well.

These soft and spicy beans are a lot like the best possible version of a vegetarian chili, with earthy black beans standing in for the usual pinto or kidney beans.

He definitely wanted to create a meatless breakfast taco, and black beans were an obvious stand - in for that.

But as well - intended as Jenkins» words may have been, they fell short of the unequivocal standard Kaepernick set when he spoke about his actions and said, «I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.»

People stood in line for as many as 40 hours to purchase tickets to Game 3, and the inevitable alcoholic concoctions that are born of such frenzy began cropping up in bars, the most offensive of which was the Canuck Cafe, espresso doused with everything yellow and black: mocha liqueur, banana liqueur, Galliano, Pernod.

The Belgian shot stopper has been a stand - out performer for the Black Cats this season, despite their fight with relegation, and will cost the Gunners around # 10million.

Realistically, it's improper to place such demands on black athletes — retired or otherwise — to stand for any causes.

«The Rec,» the R.L. Stevens Center on Seaboard Avenue, stands in a central location for many black residents of the neighborhood, and it is vacant.

Players are stand - ins for the people cannabis criminalization most negatively affects: Not only are they nearly 75 percent black, but former players are also disproportionately afflicted with opioid addiction.