Sentences with phrase «black communities when»

I join many other adults in the black community when I advise any young black man that I influence of the importance of honoring and respecting the police, while also keeping his hands visible and consistently identifying the officer by his badge number.

He mentioned that he was not accepted by the black community when he was young and it was the other race that showered him with love.

What about the societal pressure that comes from the black community when their daughter is dating a white man?

Not exact matches

When he and Beyoncé appeared at a vigil for Trayvon Martin that same year, his presence alone wasn't enough for some, who called him out for not taking a more outspoken position on the issues affecting the black community.

While the business community will always be cautious when it comes to embracing large deficits, we are satisfied that many key economic investments and priorities have been included,» said Iain Black, President and CEO, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

The fundamentalist views of the black community are derived from their masters as when they were allowed to achieve literacy, the first and most important book (in their view) was the bible.

But selling these positions within the black community is made infinitely more difficult when my black critics are able to say, «But your argument plays into the hands of those who are looking for an excuse to abandon the black poor,» and I find myself unable credibly to contradict them.

The truth is there is hatred, fear and ignorance when it comes to white men that live in white community's and there understanding of black men.

Imagine a community where whatever your race, whether black, or white, or Hispanic, or Asian, when people looked at you, they just saw a heart, a soul, and a spirit.

Departing from his column's usual standards, Richard John Neuhaus («Lives Lived Greatly,» Public Square, June / July 2008) seems quite unfair to Sen. Barack Obama and his speech on race when he writes: «The single most telling statement in the Philadelphia speech is this: «I can no more disown him [Rev. Wright] than I can disown the black community.»

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Their findings dispel the so - called firewall paradox which shocked the physics community when it was announced in 2012 since its predictions about large black holes contradicted Einstein's crowning achievement — the theory of general relativity.

Their findings dispel the so - called firewall paradox which shocked the physics community when it was announced in 2012 since its predictions about large black holes contradicted Einstein's crowning achievement - the theory of general relativity.

As you all know, I've been a bit critical of the conservative Christian community for «picking and choosing» when it comes to applying Scripture to public life, so I couldn't help but chuckle when Jack Black brought out the shrimp cocktail and called it an «abomination.»

The Death of an American Jewish Community is saturated with a nostalgia for the 1960s, when supposedly Jews and blacks marched arm - in - arm in behalf of civil rights and economic justice.

But when these two statistics began to diverge, and AFDC cases increased despite falling unemployment rates among black males, Moynihan felt that changes within the black community were decoupling economic opportunity and family stability.

I just can't understand how the black community blindly follows the liberals when they are the ones keeping them down.

«When I arrived, I had a lot more trouble with the white community than the black community,» says Gregory, who is a high school art teacher and football coach in Reedley, Calif. «But a lot changed during my years there.

There was a time when there was a separation of the white and black community.

So when she staged her first local recital Aug. 25 at the Aurora Township Youth and Community Center, her greatest wish was for Pamela Black to be in the audience.

ICYM the second item in my DN column this morning: When he gets done shoring up his support with black voters, Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo may have to do damage control with the gay community.

The black communities will be horrified when Blair's economic policies not only slam into the poorest people in Britain but also create a base for a new rise of racism and fascist groups like the BNP.

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.

Martin Price, Chairman of Bronx Community Board # 11: «When I reflect on the celebration of Black History Month I think of the common thread of well meaning people striving to better their lives and the lives of those around them.

«What destroys communities is when low - income black and brown families are forced to suck it up and live with schools that don't work for their children,» Bellafiore said.

This way, party officials explained, Democrats from Suffolk County's black and Hispanic communities are guaranteed a stronger voice in the party when it comes to choosing and supporting candidates moving forward.

Even former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, whom Cuomo challenged in the 2002 gubernatorial primary, earning him the long - standing ire of many in the black community, has stepped in to act as a surrogate for the AG against Paladino and also defended him when it looked like he might primary the state's first black governor, David Paterson.

«The sentiment continues to boomerang throughout Mount Vernon, and in many other Black communities across the country, that we must continue to question and insist on independent investigations when people die while in police custody, especially in the case of Mrs. Raynette Turner, the fifth African - American woman in the U.S. to die in police custody within the past month.

Damon & AJ ask, «Where is the outrage from the Black Community, from the Black Church, from Black Law Enforcement Officers and Organizations, who won't even speak up when something happens to one of their own.»

Nixon caused a stir when she told Forbes.com that since young minorities are disproportionately punished by marijuana arrests, black and Latino communities should get first priority to sell legal weed.

Cumbo, who enjoyed a handy victory in the Democratic primaries in September, came under fire from many in the community in the interim between her election and her swearing - in, when she published an open letter on Facebook blaming a series of alleged «knockout game» attacks in Crown Heights on tension between the neighborhood's blacks and Jews.

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

«My popularity in the black community, when I became governor, was 91 percent and by the beginning of 2009 my popularity in the black community had dropped to 54 percent because there has been a resistance to marriage equality such as there might be right here,» Mr. Paterson, a Democrat, said at a forum hosted by JP Updates, a Jewish news website.

No running mate could help erase Cuomo's record, he said, replying when asked whom Cuomo should select as his partner, «I don't know, but it really doesn't matter because he's done nothing we can really point to that supported the black community.»

But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court.

Black drawing salve is a natural remedy I first heard about when visiting a local Amish community to pick up produce and eggs.

This could also reflect the black community that for some reason the women are the ones who carry the family name (although we lose it when we are married) and the bloodline.

The black community celebrates and reinforces male dominance, but it gets a little sketchy when the woman who is supposed to be «submissive» earns $ 100,000 and her husband, who because of right of his phallus, gets to call the shots, earns $ 0 - $ $ 30,000.

In London, meanwhile, Kent's actions have a disastrous effect on the radical community, at a time when the Black Power Desk's reign of terror hits new heights - with Cullen now at the helm.

Being a widower in this community is something of a black mark, and Menashe's feeble attempts at trying to find a new wife (set up through the sect's matchmaker) are really nothing more than performative shrugs, wasting time with these suitors when all he wants to do is hang with his kid.

It is a film that subverts expectations — and at the heart of it all is star - on - the - rise Jessie Buckley, who delivers a mesmerising turn as Moll, a young woman who finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the black sheep of her community.

Black and Bernstein start with the late»80s, when the Austin arts community rallied to make Slacker, and then they describe how Linklater set off on his own with the larger - scaled Dazed And Confused.

When young father Manny (Anthony Ramos) witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man, the tight - knit community of Bed - Stuy is pushed to the brink in Reinaldo Marcus Green's Sundance Award - winning portrait of race, family and consequence.

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When a lot of these people lose jobs, many in the black community view this as an attack on black economic value and black power.»

When protests erupted in this community last year after the death of Michael Brown, and then later when a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solutWhen protests erupted in this community last year after the death of Michael Brown, and then later when a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solutwhen a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot the black 18 - year - old, Shawn Filer and Aniya Betts wanted to be part of the solution.

But the best examples may come from the recent conflicts between reform advocates and critics in which race and class have been explicit topics of the debate - when Newark's Cami Anderson is under attack for being a white interloper in a black community, or when Chicago's Rahm Emanuel is accused of being a racist murderer by the head of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Especially when you consider that Alabama Republicans in control of state government have worked for the past decade to disenfranchise minority voters through efforts such as closing motor vehicle branches in Black communities, a key way of frustrating voter registration.

Isaacs says the shot heard around New York came when the black community's elected governing body made the decision to transfer 13 white UFT teachers and 6 supervisors out of the district.