Sentences with phrase «black victims of racism»

Frequently, race - issue films act as if black victims of racism don't matter at all; Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987), about South African leader Stephen Biko, is focused almost entirely on Kevin Kline's fleeing journalist.

In June 1992, The New York Times wrote: «Sister Souljah was used as a vehicle, like Willie Horton and various other black victims of racism,» she said at a news conference at the Marriott East Side Hotel in Manhattan.

Not exact matches

While Third World countries experience oppression externally from the United States, we as blacks experience oppression internally as victims of racism.

Casting the discussion in these terms allows liberals to deplore black crime with a clear conscience; the focus on black victims establishes a connection between their new stand against crime and the older excoriation of the effects of white racism.

A top Russian official — who adjudicates in racism cases in the country — has sensationally claimed that black players are not victims of racism, if they respond to the abuse with an offensive gesture, according to the Guardian.

I'm not the only black person who has been the victim of racism and if I'm here it's not only to denounce what I've been through but it's for all the black people across the world facing it, everywhere, be it in France, London, the US... It has to stop.

«The problem of police killings of unarmed black victims should not be viewed merely as a problem of flawed action on the part of individual police officers, but more as a consequence of the broader problem of structural racism,» said senior author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

The deaths of unarmed black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL plablack victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL plaBlack Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL players.

In The Audacity of Hope, President Barack Obama complained that some «liberal policy makers and civil rights leaders had erred» when «in their urgency to avoid blaming the victims of historical racism, they tended to downplay or ignore evidence that entrenched behavioral patterns among the black poor really were contributing to intergenerational poverty.»

Black people don't have money to waste traveling only to be victims of racism overseas when at least we can be victims that take advantage of the 2nd Amendment to defend ourselves in AmeriKKKa.

Keith has also exhibited local artists like Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, who, in line with the #SayHerName social media movement, makes performances and artworks that raise awareness about black female victims of police brutality and racism in the U.S..