Sentences with phrase «about lynch»

Think about the lynchings in the 60s.

But Niebuhr said nothing about lynching, little about segregation, and once turned down King's request to sign a petition calling on the president to protect black children integrating Southern schools, Cone said.

«White theologians didn't say anything about lynching,» Cone said from his office at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he teaches a course on Niebuhr.

The magazine cajoled believers into feeding more of the hungry, drying up the wet (liquor interests regularly were scored), and there were editorials about lynchings and labor, gambling and injustice.

In that case, the text is a lie about a lynching.

A detailed song about lynching grabs our attention amongst the whippings, force - feedings, rape and other torturous mistreatments.

Like Wells, I wanted Ivoe's journalism to have purpose, but felt I could not write about lynching for my own mental health.

His image displayed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., is called «Strange Fruit,» after the Billie Holiday song about lynchings of African - Americans.

Not exact matches

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

At the University of Oklahoma, a fraternity sang about the virtues of lynching.

You can't imagine a major studio making such a cartoon today, nor Italians being lynched, nor the Times and a governor talking about them like that, nor a Harvard professor telling a student that an academic field is closed to Jews.

My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought by integrating black people into white society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..

Emancipation did not bring about an end to lynchings, segregation, and racial discrimination.

what about the civil rights movements when black people would get tried, on false accusations, and lynched?

We are talking about a past American society that, for example, either approved lynchings or did nothing about them — or was morally confused about them.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

I'm not about to go and join a Wenger lynch mob but even his most ardent supporters must have some concern that this is at least the third time he had come out after a dismal performance and said something like «we weren't mentally ready.»

And I have defended due process for years and have several public rants about the social media age and online lynch mobs setting a scary precedent - but hey just like Rueben you already know me, my intentions and my history - you are a rocket scientist.

You would still be moaning about spending # 60M on AdM and be upset to see Ashley Young and Fellaini being your lynch - pin players.

but I can't believe that a certain female writer (initials «SG»), now with (the trash news - site) CNN, and a consultant to the film, hasn't been mentioned... That she's associated with this project (and we all know how hip deep she was in the lynching of Joe) gives us all we need to know about how it will be slanted...

I will be crucified for what I am about to say but OZIL came to ARSENAL as a nervy last minute buy when WENGER was lynched on that first game against VILLA after not doing nothing at all the whole summer he went in a RUSH and bought OZIL at the very end of the SUMMER TRANSFER.....

(ed: this was the game in which Graham Poll came close to being lynched after sending off Ray Parlour for two bookables and handing the game to Newcastle late on with a disgraceful penalty decision; it still makes my blood boil thinking about it).

About 35 armed military men and two officers were deployed Monday to the area to mount a search for residents said to have lynched Captain Maxwell Mahama.

Details are emerging about how Denkyira - Obuase township and its surroundings have virtually turned into a ghost town following the killing of the army officer who was said to be jogging Monday morning before he was accosted and lynched because the townsfolk claimed he was on an armed - robbery operation.

Captain M.A Mahama of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces was jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am on May 29 when he was lynched, the Military Command confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday.

Captain Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces, was jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am on May 29 when he was lynched and a part of his body set ablaze, the Military High Command confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday.

The seven, including an assembly member who is said to be the mastermind of the lynching and subsequent burning of a part Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama's body arrived at the Court premises at about 8:10 am Thursday amidst tight security.

Major Mahama [rtd] of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces was jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am when he was lynched.

Capt. Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces, was jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am on May 29 when he was lynched, the Military Command confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday.

The lynching and murder of Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region in May, has also raised debates about the effectiveness of the country's security agencies especially the Police Service, who have the constitutional mandate of maintaining law and order in the country.

Captain Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces, was jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am on May 29 when he was lynched and a part of his body set ablaze, the Military High Command confirmed in a statement issued last Tuesday.

«At about 17:30 hours, the Police Patrol team returning from Sempoa area reported that, on reaching Hweehwee township, they encountered a rampaging youth numbering about 300 who were attempting to lynch two Fulani men, who were on motorbike returning from Sempoa heading towards Nkawkaw.»

Capt. Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces, was jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am on May 29 when he was lynched and a part of his body set ablaze, the Military High Command confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday.

Capt. Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Ghana Armed Forces, was lynched and part of his body set ablaze while jogging at Denkyira - Obuasi at about 8:30 am on Monday, May 29.

She is about to be lynched for defending her friend when the other «bad girls» ride in and rescue her, pursued by detectives.

[font = Century Gothic] «The Untold Story of Emmitt Louis Till» is a documentary about 14 - year old Emmitt Louis Till, who was tortured and lynched while on vacation with relatives in Mississippi in 1955.

When you're being raped and lynched, it's hard to care about who won best cinematography.»

The scene where Solomon thinks about running but comes across a sickening lynching.

(In French with subtitles) Spinning into Butter (R for profanity) Hate crime saga, set on the verdant campus of a college in Vermony, finds the school's dean (Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamining her feelings about prejudice when racial epithets threatening lynching are plastered to the dorm room door of a black student (Paul James).

For instance, whenever the Wiley team debates, it invariably is conveniently assigned to argue the politically - correct side of the issue, whether that be about welfare, lynching, integration, child labor, civil disobedience or elsewhat.

Get Out (written and directed by Key & Peele's Jordan Peele, who also picked up nominations for his direction and the film's screenplay) isn't about the blatantly, obviously scary kind of racism — burning crosses and lynchings and snarling hate.

This cult favorite TV movie about a mentally challenged man who's wrongfully killed by a lynch mob while dressed as a scarecrow and seemingly returns from the grave for revenge smartly keeps things low key but still manages to deliver (non-explicit) thrills, buoyed by the scene eating of perennial love - to - hate - him bad guy Charles Durning.

Released at the height of the African - American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country's awareness of racism while simultaneously serving to shame the South about its disgraceful legacy of lynching, oppression and discrimination.

The scene in which the Smith character is about to be lynched by rednecks should have been funny - but it is just lame.

In a blog post up now on the New York Times Learning Network, Facing History and Ourselves Senior Program Associate Laura Tavares pairs an article about the recent report documenting the history of racial lynching in America with an excerpt from Harper Lee's best - selling «To Kill a Mockingbird» in order to situate the novel in its historical context and raise important questions about race, justice, and memory today.

Many black people in America shy away from reading about slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, and racism.

He goes on to say that many people, especially young people, shy away from reading about slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, and racism because the ugliness and the pain seem unremitting, but «without embracing the past one can not create her future.»

You know, the one that Nintendo fans worship and that's going to get me lynched if I say anything negative about it.

Learn more about the memorial and EJI's Research on lynching.

In one testimonial, the grandson of a survivor reads a newspaper clipping from 1919 about his family's friend, who was shot but kept alive overnight in a doctor's office so that he could be publicly lynched the following day.