Sentences with phrase «black people in this country»

When writing it, I was on some level thinking about the mass incarceration of black people in this country.

Derrick, a scholar and activist who had been the first Black tenured law professor at Harvard University, explained that Black people in this country have made progress only when our interests converged with the interests of people in power.

But the reality is, the NAACP does not represent all black people in this country.

Our goal is to facilitate the development of an effective teaching force that reflects the diversity of Black people in this country.

«I'm sorry that an interview I did about a minority, black people in this country, and gun rights was used as a weapon against you guys,» he said.

Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit) at the University of Queensland wrote at The Conversation that Leak's cartoon was a reminder of the need interrogate and scrutinise «what white men are saying and doing to black Australia (men, women and children) and the lived consequences of these commentaries, caricatures and policies on the lives of black people in this country».

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«Come gather «round people wherever you roam / And admit that our country don't feel like our home,» Fallon sang in grainy, black - and - white footage, accurately recreating Dylan's gruff voice.

I think there were some people in this country who thought that all was well because of the symbolism of our first black president.

I am glad to see that people are finally beginning to compare the struggle that Blacks (Afro - Americans) in this country have experienced in the past, with the struggle that gays are still experiencing in this country.

To the person who said Obama is half white: It is an ugly but longstanding «tradition» in our country, especially in the South, to consider people black if they have even one great grandparent who was black.

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

I see it in the way people love the pictures I post of my daughter, but get really quiet when I start talking about the issues that will directly impact her as a black woman in this country.

Just replace black with gay and you'll understand what is happening when people like you use their religion as a weapon against EQUAL rights in a SECULAR country.

Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.

If whites were really as racist as blacks think there wouldn't be a single black person left in this country.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

David O. McKay Finally, in 1978 the Mormons had a revelation allowing blacks into the priesthood — conveniently at the exact time that they were expanding beyond the U.S. into countries full of «cursed» people, like Brazil.

«I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,» Kaepernick told NFL.com.

It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality, life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country, who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority who were black and in chains.

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

They have empowered black people to stand up against slavery and prejudice in this country.

He need to concentrate on stopping black people in committing most of the crime in this country.

Most people in this country are not black either.

Once there were gatherings in church basements around the country of blacks and whites, all repenting together of the hatred they possessed and violence they could do to the white people who would attack them during street demonstrations.

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

But as well - intended as Jenkins» words may have been, they fell short of the unequivocal standard Kaepernick set when he spoke about his actions and said, «I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.»

In an infamous GQ interview in August, he said that the country is beyond race and that people's dislike of him had nothing to do with him being blacIn an infamous GQ interview in August, he said that the country is beyond race and that people's dislike of him had nothing to do with him being blacin August, he said that the country is beyond race and that people's dislike of him had nothing to do with him being black.

By «more white» I think that Poogles meant «less Black», and in that she is perfectly correct, the USA has a much higher proportion of people of Black African descent than any European country.

Clive Francis, who plays the dictatorial army chief, Major Rice, is spectacularly unnerving — his thinly veiled racism adds to the atmosphere in his confrontations with the black people of the unnamed country.

After a period of protests, seeking to ensure black people were represented in government and other areas of public life, the revolution against the British occupation and the exploitation of the country's natural resources turns violent.

Barbara Pedmore of the Black Reconstruction Group, described him as «too honest a person to lead an African country» but went on further to predict what we witnessed in Kumasi today.

The worry I have is the more we bang on about immigration — and it seems as though that is going to be one of the big themes of the next election — it resonates with what we understand people are concerned about, but the more we bang on about that as the Conservative Party, the more we will seem I fear to people in this country with brown skin, with black skin, people who've come from outside the UK, they will just think «God, Tories somehow see us as being second - class citizens».

Another Aug. 23 post from Toribio, who is a registered Republican, was highly critical of the Black Lives Matter movement which has focused on ending police killings of blacks and people of color in this country.

With his fist in the air, Buffalo Common Council Member Ulysees O. Wingo Sr. silently protested the killing of unarmed black people by police in the country during the Pledge of Allegiance prior to yesterday's council meeting.

Sports News of Saturday, 19 May 2018 Source: mypowerfmonline.com A scene from the investigative piece by Anas on the Sports sector in the country Coach Abdul Karim Zito, the head coach of the national U-17 team, the Black Starlets, has shockingly disclosed that he does not believe that «football people» are corrupt and should be haunted by investigative journalists.

«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.

here in the sunny Black Country people are anti govt but not anti labour party (as people were anti-tory in the 1990's)

Afterward, at the swearing in ceremony for Suffolk County's first black sheriff, Cuomo said «anyone who believes that this country is about keeping people out doesn't understand what this country is all about.»

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

In Miami, Teri Williams, the president of the country's largest black - owned bank, OneUnited Bank, was recently on the local public radio station, WLRN, talking about the importance of maintaining historically black neighborhoods as spaces for people of color.

Can the question even be asked in a country where violence — in many people's eyes — has come to wear a young black face?

According to BlackDemographics.com, 31 % of people in Virginia Beach are black, making it a relatively diverse city compared to dozens of others in the country.

The population of black people in Scotland has grown in recent years, mainly due to immigration from sub-Saharan Africa.Cities such as Edinburgh and Aberdeen have seen a surge in the number of immigrants from countries like Nigeria.

So I ask if there is anyone living in a country, who dates interracially, that doesn't a) have a history of slavery, b) any instances of overt racism against Black people, and c) any instances of covert racism please inform us!

i live on my own, i have long black hair and blue eyes i have 5 tats, i like country music, and im funny and outgoing, do nt care what ppl think or say and if they got the balls to get up in my face good luck with that.

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For example, when asked about whether or not she advocates violence, Angela Davis offers this heartfelt response: «When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because it means that the person asking the question has absolutely no idea what we have gone through in this country since the first black person was kidnapped on the shores of Africa.»

One of the more repellent details most people in this country would prefer to forget is how imported African women were abused as sex slaves, and how their black sons and brothers surely were too.