Sentences with phrase «blacks voted against»

Yes, except for the fact that a majority of blacks voted against gay marriage in California.

It's a start, though it's hard to imagine a lot of blacks voting against obama.

Not exact matches

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Selma is set in 1965, at a time when black people in Alabama were actively discriminated against by local officials when they attempted to register to vote.

It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

It makes no difference they will vote for him for the fact that he is black whether or not they stand against him on this issue.

Men called bishops in the church of God [have] voted against having any fellowship in the church with black men.»

Neo-con, evangeloical WASPs in the deep Ssouth don't consider Mormons to be Christian and would never vote for one ules he were ruinning against a black, comminist / socialist Muslim President.

By the way, I'm white and I voted for Obama (my heart was only half in it — his white half — I would have voted against the black half if I could have).

I was against the fact that Indians could vote but not yet Blacks — in South Africa...

At 11 a.m., low - income NYers hold a protest calling on the NY Federal Reserve president to vote against any rate increases that impact black an Latino workers, 33 Liberty St., Manhattan.

However, only 78 % of black Democrats would vote for Clinton against McCain, and only 74 % of Democrats overall say they would vote for Obama.

Late last month, Basil Paterson, the governor's father and a longtime Rangel ally, said on New York 1 that Cuomo's 2002 run against McCall had left a «sour taste» among black voters and suggested a repeat performance by the attorney general could cost him the black vote.

It sounded much like the one that made him at best a gadfly and at worst a pariah in Christine Quinn's City Council: he intends to vote against the powerful Mr. Silver for Speaker, to pontificate on the floor against the lack of black power in New York and to unite the African - American members of the conference along racial lines.

Frank Field and Michael Portillo both said tat it would be better for Scotland to go independent, Michael gove was described last year in a spectator article as the greatest leader Labours never had, portillos first political hero was Harold Wilson, and black Tory lord John Taylor said of Portillo that he was just pretending to be Thatcherite to further his career in the 80's So to take the view that there are some non Blairite, non Corbyinsta, EU skeptics who appeal to the Socially conservative, yet Social democrat view of politics, what was needed was a 42 year old, Admirer of Frank field and Michael Portillo, who was against Iraq, voted leave, and didn't back David miliband for leader in 2010

Councilwoman Inez Barron (D - Brooklyn) cast the lone vote against him for herself, contending it was time for the Council to vote for its first black Council Speaker.

The Black Country MP said it was an unusual vote, held through a ballot, but he «no idea» what he was thinking when voting against his wishes, and backed the government.

In 1966, he orchestrated the March Against Fear — a 220 mile walk from Memphis, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss., intended to encourage blacks to register and vote.

There was some momentary drama when a group of mostly black leaders in Algiers won a temporary restraining order against the plan and Acting Superintendent Watson and board president Torin Sanders, who was one of the votes against the Algiers plan, began to talk about OPSB opening four of its own West Bank schools in November, but the resistance was short - lived.

It details strategies used to secure the vote, recognizes outstanding black leaders, and documents the contributions of black sports figures, soldiers, artists, actors, writers, and others in the fight against segregation and discrimination.

That credit goes to grassroots advocates, including Black churches and branches of the NAACP, who, with the help of national outfits, conducted strong get - out - the - vote campaigns on behalf of Jones and, more - importantly, against Moore.

Then again, many Republicans have found it easy to vote against their principles when it comes to a majority black, Democratic New Orleans.

The NAACP vote came after intense lobbying against the resolution from the industry and its allies, including editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, a letter from black pro-charter legislators from California (where the sector gets almost anything it wants), and out - of - state protesters who were bused in and interrupted the NAACP's proceedings.

Yet at the United Federation of Teachers Delegates Assembly on January 17, 2018, the largest teachers» local in the country, at the leadership's suggestion and after only five minutes of debate, voted against supporting the NYC Black Lives Matter Week of Action.

Voting against HB530 is voting against the most oppressed demographic in the city - our young Black men.

[85] The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

In 2004, in an online poll, Mary was also voted the Greatest Black Briton, and was included in the National Curriculum after 36,000 people signed a petition against her possible exclusion in 2013.

Last year, a federal court ruled that the 2013 voting law also discriminated against Black voters, targeting them with «almost surgical precision.»