Sentences with phrase «against minority communities»

This new evidence provides more support that BofA has been discriminating against minority communities.

Good in theory, but now resulting in manufactured revenge accusations against minority communities where a blasphemy charge is hard to prove, frequently goes the way of the mob, is used to settle old grudges and I believe carries the death penalty.

Although these claims are not new, his repetition and vitriolic delivery has been a catalyst for increased violence against minority communities.

Not exact matches

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

But because the couple are from the minority Parsi community - part of the Zoroastrian religion, a minority faith founded in ancient Persia - their fate highlights, some say, how prejudice against outsiders in Balochistan makes them easy targets for increasingly powerful criminal gangs.

Unlike other theologians of his Church, he did not do it against the prohibition placed on Judeo - Christians to remain members of the Christian community, but against the marginalization and degradation of the Jewish minority within the national community.

At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.

The prescription is that divisions in the community must be reduced to but one division, the division of all against one common victim or one minority group.

Sean will work effectively to prosecute public corruption and fight against intolerance by defending minority communities throughout the state.

Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.

When Mr. Bloomberg ran for a third term in 2009 against Bill Thompson, who is black, his performance in minority communities was staggeringly low: just 22 and 23 percent of black male and female voters supported Mr. Bloomberg, exit polls showed.

Common Cause NY has already warned against an effort to torpedo minority communities in order to save white incumbents.

Joyce Love, a black woman who won the 3rd Ward council seat against incumbent Ron Bailey, said having more diversity on the council could help get things done in minority communities.

But then came video cameras on cell phones, recording the very acts that have been perpetrated on many black communities throughout the country and honestly, I look at the same song as an honest and powerful protest against an unjust system that at times treats minorities as sub-human.

Recognize violence and discrimination against students with disabilities, and those from indigenous, minority and other marginalized communities.

Up until that time, some communities attempted to discriminate against black people and members of other minority groups.

Students explore the impact of a plan to locate a new industry in a low - income neighborhood, then take on the roles of community members, business executives, and city officials as they advocate for and against building a power plant in a low - income minority neighborhood.

As Dropout Nation noted back in January, DeVos and her team are going to use every tool available in their collaboration in the Trump Administration's low - grade ethnic cleansing against poor, minority and immigrant communities.

And families and educators are starting to push back against the model of charter school that has dominated in some communities, including New Orleans: That model, its critics argue, is segregated by design in that it's created specifically for low - income minority children.

Responding to a question from the audience, Harper cautioned White journalists against doing just a «drop in» to minority communities when they need a quote or soundbite.

Last week, we addressed plans for a national community advocacy agency to «call out» the practice of investor overlays as discriminatory against minority borrowers.

Recently, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition asked HUD to investigate 22 lenders that impose stricter underwriting criteria than required by FHA to insure mortgages, claiming that requiring higher credit scores discriminates against minority mortgage applicants.

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This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

There will always be a small vocal minority against any change or development, but stamping down on dialogue and objections rules out any opportunity to engage with a community.

Such a person must be taken to possess knowledge of the local population and its racial dynamics, including the existence in the community of a history of widespread and systemic discrimination against black and aboriginal people, and high profile clashes between the police and the visible minority population over policing issues.

The Senate is poised to pass a bill this week that would weaken the government's ability to enforce fair - lending requirements, making it easier for community banks to hide discrimination against minority mortgage applicants and harder for regulators to...