Sentences with phrase «if white middle class»

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My point is only that if one is white, North American, and middle class, as are most process theologians, then one would be hesitant to suppose that one can really think in a sustained way from the perspective of the oppressed.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

They make me wonder if their Christianity is only for straight, middle - class, white people?»

If both win in Iowa and New Hampshire, that's because the white middle class is in decline, both economically and culturally.

If you build it, white middle - class folk will come.

If you don't conform to a suburban, white, middle class lifestyle, you aren't going to fit in as easily in the evangelical church.

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

If you had insisted on complaining and the white men persisted in their little prank, the police may well have arrived, embarrassed at your presence, avuncularly annoyed with the young men, scrupulously correct with the black man, probably a visitor but possibly a native South African businessman himself (South Africa does have the largest black middle class in Africa).

If, instead, my first identity is part of the global Body of Christ, then white middle - class Americans are a tiny sliver indeed.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

Still, the authors say if we remove the white, middle - class blinders of marriage, we'd see aspects of black marriages that are «egalitarian, empowering and pioneering,» and that could potentially «undo gender.»

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

If you asked a middle class 15 year old white boy what it's like to live in the «hood», this is exactly what he'd describe; basically a living hip - hop video, complete with rappers, lowriders and hot and gratuitously naked Puerto Rican babes.

Moreover, as many middle - class and broke white American males face sobering, if inevitable, realizations and disillusions about the future, laughing at Hill's moronic, unhinged versions as they champion outdated movie / sports star heroics atop small - town kingdoms is like homemade medicine.

If you're born white, male, middle - class and American, he says, «you've really been handed everything.»

And if takes him a white middle - class family living in an expensive home attempting to find The One while swearing like common folk to tackle such ambitious topics, then screw it, darling, there's no use crying over spilt champagne on the billiards table.

In fact, district efforts to «recruit» middle - class white families can further marginalize existing low - income, minority students and families, and lead to further segregation if white and middle - class families cluster in the same schools.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Really bad if the pushback forces succeed in drawing in white, middle - class, suburban parents by convincing them that charters drain money from their high - functioning schools.

If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.

To this end, he bullies poor minority children in a way that would be totally unacceptable if his charges were middle class and «white.»

If you are a white or middle - class family living in Washington, your child will likely attend a socioeconomically segregated neighborhood school or a higher - quality magnet, and will outperform her peers in suburban public schools.

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

Rather than creating policies with the new white middle and upper - class families in mind, policy and school administrators also need to consider their positions and sentiments, even if they do not have the same social capital or resources as their white counterparts.

If you grew up white and middle class, not so much.

«It's not your mother's climate march,» promises Paul Getsos, the national coordinator for 350.org, particularly not if your mother is white and middle - class.

If you are white, middle class, and went to a state university, get a job waiting tables at a very expensive restaurant.