Sentences with phrase «white leaders who»

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White leaders who make or fund controversial decisions will give the overwrought responses we've come to expect in racial matters: «I can't say that because I'm white.»

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«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

«It's not surprising to anybody who knows Rob that he's avoided the squabbles and turf battles that have consumed so many others in this White House,» Brian McGuire, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Business Insider.

But Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was more specific when he resigned a short time later, writing that while he had urged leaders to condemn «white supremacists and their ilk,» many in Washington «seem more concerned with attacking anyone who disagrees with them.»

I have already made clear my abhorrence at the recent hate - spawned violence in Charlottesville, and earlier today I called on all leaders to condemn the white supremacists and their ilk who marched and committed violence.

In the lead - up to his dinner at the White House planned for Thursday night, Chinese premier Xi Jinping met with the people who really run things: Leaders of the world's biggest tech companies.

-LRB-...) Mr. Frazier, who is African - American, and Mr. Krzanich and Mr. Plank, who are white, were three of the 28 business and union leaders the president named to the advisory council aimed at helping him boost U.S. manufacturing jobs.

After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, spent much of last week weighing whether to hold a vote on the measure that included the new amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.

The chief executive of Intel, Brian Krzanich, who is a member of one of the president's advisory councils, said, «There should be no hesitation in condemning hate speech or white supremacy by name,» and urged the nation's leaders to do so.

It's bottled up anger for a black young lawyer and «community organizer» (only in the republican party where community organizer is a derogatory word) who was able to reach new heights and be the leader of the white house.

Should these leaders allow the Court to use power granted to it by a document drafted by a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries?

When «inclusiveness» became the highest priority, many leaders (white, male, middle - age) whom people had trusted were shunted aside, and the merits of those who attained office (because they fit the quota slots) came under the shadow of suspicion.

Wheaton administrators spent several months preparing for a 2006 visit from Soulforce, a group aiming to change religious leaders» minds on gay issues that was co-founded by Mel White, who was a ghost writer for some evangelical leaders, including Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

We like leaders who are bold, tell us the «right» answers and have a black - and - white view of solutions.

You're the typical Tea Fartie maniac who would do anything to spew out lies to create fear and hysteria, while you keep trying to create your white - only Evangelical theocracy in the Redneck belt with Rick Santorum as your «supreme leader.»

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

Thus a New York Times story described Washington Mayor Barry's alliance with Farrakhan in the following terms: «[Barry] has shown up at rallies with the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has gained nationwide attention for his criticism of white society, particularly Jews.»

They did little while the older guard was still alive, but once the senior leaders who practiced racism (e.g. by excluding black denominations from the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America) died or went into retirement they exposed the problem and proposed a radical solution: disband the PFNA and ask African - American Pentecostal leaders to start a new umbrella association for Pentecostal cooperation and, if they wanted to, to invite white Pentecostals into it.

For very telling evidence of this fact, read A Man Called White (New York: Viking Press, 1948), the life story of a very light - skinned Negro, Walter White, who was long the general secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and one of the outstanding leaders of his race.

The Apartheid system in Africa; the African liberation leader Nelson Mandela is trying to liberate the black people who are greatly repressed by the white people.

Leader of the wildlings — free men who live beyond the wall that divides Westeros from the rest of the continent — Mance Rayder is plotting to invade the Seven Kingdoms, while also facing a threat from the zombie - like White Walkers.

Leicester City defeated Crystal Palace 1 - 0 away to move up to 66 points, five ahead of Tottenham Hotspur in second, who cruised past Bournemouth at White Hart Lane to keep the head on the unlikely leaders.

«We have a dynamic role model in the White House, a black woman who gets the idea that she can go to work, be a lawyer and still provide milk for her baby,» said Napiera Loveless, co-founder of MamaTotoMatema, a Cincinnati - based organization committed to educating and encouraging leaders and health care professionals to adopt different approaches to promoting breastfeeding in African American families.

Their new documentary Lunch Line (Uji Films) follows the story of six Chicago high school students who enter a cooking contest to create a healthier school lunch and end up serving their winning meal to congressional leaders and touring the White House with executive mansion chefs.

Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett says he didn't know who Jason Kessler was when the white nationalist leader met with him in his Capitol Hill office in March.

Pataki, who once harbored White House aspirations of his own, said he does not think there will be a «dearth of talent» for the Republicans in 2016, noting that there are many leaders in the party — including a number of (unnamed) «former governors.»

Senate Democrats are facing growing pressure to break the white male stranglehold on senior staff positions in their ranks — a push that's uniting consultants and lobbyists inside the Beltway with Black Lives Matter and other minority leaders who are accusing the party of «soft bigotry.»

De Blasio, who just this morning labeled the new policy «immoral,» convened Crowley, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill and an array of local leaders in City Hall this evening to discuss the new White House dictate.

While Senate and House leaders have been wary of Trump's involvement in their midterm races, the White House and RGA continue to maintain strong relations thanks in part to RGA executive director Paul Bennecke, a longtime aide to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and former RGA executive director Nick Ayers, another former Perdue aide who's now chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.

A white paper issued by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan communities.

This ad features black - and - white stills of the former state comptroller and ex-governor (pictured at a scrum with Cuomo by his side) as well as the scandal - scarred Senate majority leader, who is fighting for his political life against his establishment - backed primary challenger, Gustavo Rivera.

Donald Trump passed up a chance today to condemn former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and other white supremacists who've expressed support for his 2016 presidential bid.

The action of the play takes place in The Albion pub in London's east end, which, as well as playing host to a karaoke five nights a week, is also the centre of operations for the EPA's leader Paul — a man who thinks his country has changed so much that white, working - class men like him are now a voiceless minority.

Marcia White, a former top aide to ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno who rescued the Saratoga Performing Arts Center from its worst budget crisis, plans to retire at the end of 2016 after a dozen years at the helm.

In the tense final hours before the close vote, Katko said he was not among those House members who White House officials and GOP leaders were trying to lobby to change their positions.

My advice to my colleagues within my Democratic Conference is that nobody should take my vote for granted about who should become the Leader of my Democratic Conference, no matter if they are Black, White, Hispanic, Jewish, or Christian.

During a visit to Latvia, VP Joe Biden assured leaders that Trump, who is one election away from the White House, had no idea what he was talking about when he threatened to back out of the NATO pledge to protect American allies.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and others trying to unseat Republican incumbents from the right, saying they're «specialists at nominating people who lose.»

These bills will mark the start of a reinvigorated progressive agenda from Latimer and the Board of Legislators, who recently elected a new majority leader, Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat, to replace the previous chair, Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, in a divisive nomination process.

In Las Vegas, Biden appeared as a surrogate for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's White House bid, as well as for Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto who is locked in a closely watched race to replace retiring Minority Leader Harry Reid.

Minority Leader Barbara Jeter - Jackson and Legislator Steve White, both who represent the City of Poughkeepsie, joined Republican legislators in support of the resolution.

The fact that Brown, who is African American, has decided to back Schneiderman is a not - so - subtle snub to Cuomo, who came under fire from black and Latino leaders after he tapped Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy to be his running mate, effectively ensuring an all - white Democratic statewide ticket with — at this moment, anyway — just one woman and one upstater (Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, on both counts).

Davis» decision not to seek the support of groups like the Alabama Democratic Conference and the New South Coalition — he has long been at odds with the leaders of those organizations — led them to throw their endorsements behind state Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, who is white, in the primary.

The only people who care about the color of skin are racist like you and the Senate Democrats who have a lithmus test that their leader can't be white, but must be at least black.

Biden, who has been the lead negotiator for the budget talks, sat down earlier this month with Republican and Democratic leaders, White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Budget Director Jack Lew to hammer out a deal which would reduce spending and fund the government.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Thomas Libous, a former deputy majority leader of the New York state Senate, was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement and two years of probation for lying to federal agents who were investigating whether he used his political influence to get his son a job.

The former Minister, who was reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari's one - day visit to the White House, claimed the Nigerian leader «escaped international scrutiny».

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.