Sentences with phrase «black slaves who»

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There were many fine candidates on the right who were African - American, who were called traitors, Uncle Toms, house slaves, by those on the left, referring to these people as individuals who apparently did not remember that they were black.

In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyes.

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

I make black people, and I make people who hate them and turn them into slaves.

Black folks please read the evil words towards christians here by radical dems and come home to the party of lincoln who freed ur people from slaves, u can vote for herman cain, hes at the top of all polls now with repubs

But black Christians, starting with the slaves who took up the Bible, also viewed the cross as a way to cope with suffering.

Ironic how people get worked up when the Los Angeles Clipper's owner doesn't want his girlfriend to associate with black people, but don't have a problem discriminating against anyone who is not Christian, or don't care that the founding fathers were some of the most racist people on Earth and actually owned slaves.

When one adds up the millions murdered by the communists, one also needs to count the Native Americans, black slaves and Third World children who have died because of Western policies.

Those who came freely — the immigrants — and those who came in chains — the black slaves — had to endure great privations before they could achieve full citizenship.

Look at all the scared, hate - filled Christian wan na be's... Jesus was a liberal and loves all... it's only the simple - minded humans who live in fear, hate and ignorance... you Christian sinners wouldn't know what to do with yourselves if you didn't have something, or someone, to hate... you are pathetic... it was your family before you who wanted to see blacks remain slaves an invoked their perverted views of the bible to justify their hate... and now you, their offspring, are here to repeat their stupid mistakes... ignorant losers are those who hate and mock someone different... Live and let live...

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

These gay haters were cut from the same pattern as were those who conducted The Inquisition and the egregious, low down acts from the Fifties with their penchant for mistreating Blacks, as were those who used the Bible to make slaves out of them.

(Speaking of Foghorn Leghorn, one of the funniest guys I've never actually met, Rod from the awesome The Black Guy Who Tips podcast told a joke today on Facebook about how he loved Foghorn Leghorn when he was a toddler, but realized after getting older that he was probably a slave owner.

Dr. Suzanne Gilberg - Lenz, the OB - GYN expert on momlogic.com, finds the whole thing an ironic twist on America's history of breastfeeding, which includes black wet nurses forced to breastfeed the slave owners» children during slavery and Victorian - era women who paid other women to nurse their children so they didn't have to be stuck at home.

Clinton, who lacked confidence as Commander - in - Chief after «Black Hawk Down» and the failure to intervene in Rwanda, became a slave to public polling and his chief pollster, Dick Morris, after the momentous midterm defeat of 1994.

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

The sites announced Friday include an early black community along the Hudson Valley that served as a refuge for freed and escaped slaves, a commercial district in Utica with roots stretching back nearly 200 years, and a Catskills retreat that belonged to a 19th century businessman who made his money in soda fountains.

Virginia Ky of the Chinese American Planning Council compared her experience working in a restaurant to Liu's in the factory, while Brooklyn Democratic District leader Olanike Alabi, who is black, declared, «We know struggle — some as the sons and daughters of immigrants, some as descendents of slaves.»

SLAVE MARKET FOODS: Studies, and a bit of common sense, show that classifications on the socio - economical scale such as low income, inner city and / or ethnic minority [Hispanic / Black] predisposes consumers (who are equal under the law to protections against harm) to diabetes, obesity and other health risks as grocery stores in their area tend to sell lower qualities foods while food producers price high quality (or even halfway decent) foods out of reach.

I suppose I am a slave to the manageing partner's taste, who requires that I wear RED as much as possible (with Red pump's), except when he wants me to wear BLUE or BLACK, typically when we are takeing cleint's out to the Lamb's Club.

Moreover, relationship commentators have argued that females date black guys to rebel against the ancient prejudice held by whites who despise the blacks as they were once slaves in the US.

It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

The wounded Maximus collapses and is captured by a passing slave trader, who sells him and a black man named Juba (Djimon Hounsou) to Proximo (Oliver Reed, unfortunately sharing no screen time with fellow hell - raiser Harris) who trains both men as gladiators.

An unusual beauty with delicate features, expressive black eyes, and a full, wide mouth, Tyson next hid her good looks beneath layers of old - age makeup to convincingly portray a 110 - year - old former slave who tells her extraordinary life story in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974).

Inspiring stories of brave men, women and children introduce us to Harry Washington, one of George Washington's slaves, who ran away from Mount Vernon and joined the British Army; to the first sit - in (a refusal to worship from the «black pews») at a Philadelphia church in 1786; and to Mound Bayou, Miss., an all - black town founded proudly by former slaves.

Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is also the first black director since Steve McQueen (2013's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave) to be recognized for Best Director, a category that's only nominated four black men — John Singleton, Lee Daniels, McQueen and Jenkins — since the award was first handed out in 1929.

The film follows the true life story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in New York, who in 1841 was deceived and sent southward to be sold as a slave.

12 Years A Slave is based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man in the North, and a skilled carpenter and fiddler, who was lured to Washington, D.C. by a pair of circus promoters in 1841, then kidnapped and sold into slavery in New Orleans.

The film «12 Years a Slave» is based on the true story of a free black man who was kidnapped into slavery in the pre-Civil War American South.

In John Sayles» science - fiction comedy The Brother from Another Planet, the Brother (Joe Morton) arrives on Earth as an escaped alien slave, running from two white Men in Black (David Strathairn and John Sayles), who are also aliens.

Six of the 12 actors on the 2014 «Hollywood Issue» cover are black — including Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong» o from «12 Years a Slave;» Michael B. Jordan, who had a critically acclaimed performance in «Fruitvale Station;» Idris Elba and Naomie Harris, who played the legendary Nelson and Winnie Mandela in Weinstein Co.'s «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom;» and Chadwick Boseman, who starred as Jackie Robinson in «42» and appears opposite Kevin Costner in the upcoming «Draft Day.»

Pitt, who produced the film, has a minor role in «12 Years a Slave» and Fassbender is in a supporting role, and both are White, while Black actor Ejiofor appears in virtually every scene in the film.

Based on the true story of a free black man who was sold into slavery in the American South, Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave» has been greeted with fervent and near - universal praise in Toronto, as well as by assertions that its rapturous reception virtually guarantees a Best Picture win.

12 Years a Slave: Powerful does not begin to describe this Steve McQueen production about a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1800's.

The story of Nat Turner, who led a rebellion of slaves and free black men in 1831, the film stars Nate Parker (who also directed and co-wrote the film), Gabrielle Union and Jackie Earle Haley.

In that film, Caesar was raised by a circus owner (Ricardo Montalban) and became the Che Guevara / Malcom X / Black Panther-esque leader of apes who were turned into slaves by humans.

«The Birth of a Nation» does not have the entertainment value of «12 Years a Slave,» Steve McQueen's Oscar - winning portrayal in 2013 of an upstate New York Black man who is abducted and sent back to slavery.

Parker delivers an Oscar - caliber performance as Nat Turner, a black preacher in the antebellum South who led an uprising of his fellow slaves three decades prior to the Civil War.

Based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northrup, 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the married and educated free black man living in New York who was kidnapped by two men and put into a slave pen where he lived twelve years under forced slaSlave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the married and educated free black man living in New York who was kidnapped by two men and put into a slave pen where he lived twelve years under forced slaslave pen where he lived twelve years under forced slavery.

Twelve Years a Slave is the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man and resident of New York, who was kidnapped in 1841and sold into slavery.

Based on his own experience of being deemed «not black enough,» Townsend played a struggling actor who dreams of great roles, only to be offered nothing but slaves, butlers and jive - talking hoodlums.

Samuel L. Jackson also deserves further note for his terrific portrayal as Candie's self - loathing black slave supervisor «Stephen» who has an unshakable allegiance to his master despite the sincerely shocking treatment of his people.

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Other possible topics for his jokes, according to those who were in the audience at Rock's brief club appearances, are the versatility of actor Paul Giamatti — who, he said, hated black people in «12 Years a Slave» but loved them in «Straight Outta Compton» — and the recent meeting between Mexican drug lord El Chapo and Sean Penn, the actor who was famously unamused by Rock's comments about Jude Law when Rock first hosted the Oscar show 11 years ago.

Payne's book is brilliant and should be read by all education policymakers, but today, in honor of Martin Luther King, I want to call attention to the Epilogue (as I have done before), where Payne tells the story of William J. Moore, «grandson of a fugitive slave,» who opened a «first class elementary school» in West Cape May, New Jersey, for the black «yard men, delivery «boys», dockhands, truck drivers, casual laborers, and factory workers» who serviced the white tourists of Cape May.

Not having the happy ending was a wise decision on the author's part, because it would have undercut his overall message, and it would have seemed contrived: While we know slaves did escape to safety in the 19th century, his novel is a commentary on the present, where there is no such «happy ending» of perfect safety and freedom, even for black people who achieve.

* Black Britons (or Black Loyalists) was the term used to describe former North American slaves or free blacks who joined the British Army against the colonists in the American Revolutionary War.

Victor, a black bounty hunter who tracks down escaped slaves, is on the trail of an escapee known as Jackdaw, and his pursuit will take many dramatic twists and turns.

Set in post-Civil War Chicago, it follows three strangers — a widowed white woman, a freeborn black woman from Tennessee and a former slave whose wife was sold away from him before the war — who move to the city for a chance to start over but are unable to completely shed their pasts.

This handsome book introduces Francisco Menendez, a slave in eighteenth - century South Carolina who gained his freedom and led an early black community in Florida.