Sentences with phrase «black people walk by»

«When white tourists watch 4 black people walk by then stop you to ask how to buy a metrocard you're supposed to tell them it's $ 50 right,» he tweeted last March.

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When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

You can sit and watch people go by for hours — the old lady walking her wobbly poodle, the way the man rests his hand on his girlfriend's lower back, the rabbi in his black furry hat perspiring in the heat, the young mom with her whining toddler talking on her mobile phone.

Even so, and despite Black's bland presence, the third Fast and the Furious film offers the first glimpse of something truly engaging with this material, allowing Lin's friend and collaborator Sung Kang to walk away with the film without much effort and hammering home the franchise's broader themes of noble outlaw codes by transplanting them to an entirely separate group of people from the previous casts.

[12] Fragmento Brasil (1977 - 2005), a synchronized multi-projection piece without sound, is made up of paired sequences of 648 images [13] from three sources: details from Albert Eckhout's mid-17th-century paintings of Brazilian birds set in idealized landscapes of European provenance; the abstract drawings of Yãnomãmi people from Venezuela and Brazil, 1978 — 80; and in conjunction, black & white landscape photographs of the Rio Caroni, Rio Uraricoera and Rio Branco regions in Venezuela and Brazil taken by the artist on a five - month walk in 1977.

It was accompanied by a film that paired footage of Black Lives Matter protests with body - cam video taken by a person walking around a dark house.