Here the race issue is brought to the forefront: two upper -
class white liberals find their own progressive values challenged when their daughter returns home from a ten - day Hawaiian vacation with a black fiancé in tow.
The Democrats are acting crazy thanks to racial politics — specifically, the angry racial politics of upper - middle -
class white liberals.
Not exact matches
Continue reading «Meditation of a Middle - Aged, (Upper) Middle -
Class,
White,
Liberal, Protestant Parent»
Liberals have nothing against
White, middle -
class Christian conservatives.
Or, as Liddle prefers to label them: «
white middle -
class liberals in London who still think it's a bit much to admit that you're proud you're English».
RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a
white middle -
class backlash to the
liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.
(Oh... wait... I forgot...
Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle
class married
white folks.
What results is a kind of photographic negative of the comparably more pastel - hued Annie Hall, a mellow, grayscale romantic melodrama with a
liberal dosage of one - liners that would be taken for chemical impurities if the film weren't also manifestly abstracted by Gordon Willis's world -
class black - and -
white cinematography.
«Essentially the ratings people are
white middle -
class liberals.
Samantha is, to some extent, the best possible version of the decent,
liberal but unavoidably
white, middle -
class woman, and a patient, inspirational teacher too — but it is Jasmine who, by being so completely herself, makes the film's most important point: No matter how good your intentions, «rescue» is not ever really yours to give.
The loudest, most vociferous opponents of charter schools I see are middle
class,
White, college educated,
liberal - progressives entrenched within the educational establishment.
Sharpe realizes that many «
white»
liberals are susceptible to wishful thinking: the
white liberals see quite clearly that American public schooling, steeped in
class and racial segregation, is a moral disgrace.
Quoting a young, black founder of one Transition group, Rob points out that there is already a concern that the movement lacks diversity and is the preserve of the
white,
liberal middle
classes: