Sentences with phrase «class white people»

They saw it as a place where only middle - class white people were welcome,» says Schueller.

What will he do when the next Cordray comes in and finds all of his loans were done for upper middle - class white people below age 50?

On the other hand, middle - class white people are not touched by charter schools, and so they don't support them.

If education reform truly is the civil rights struggle of our time, it's time once again to widen the definition of rights at risk to include working class white people too.

Even still, all citizens will have documents checked and there is always the problem that ethnic minority citizens may be more likely to be considered «migrants» than, for example, middle class white people.

Must I ramble of a list of low class white people who commit crimes and get gets swept under the rug?

This is the bougie, upper - middle class white person's guide to questioning the status quo of marriage.

Not exact matches

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

A lot of people like the book for its insights into what the white working class sees in Donald Trump and his promises to restore American greatness in the face of malevolent outsiders.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

One obvious way to offset the clubbiness endemic to Silicon Valley's investor class would be to replace the «guts» of white men with those of women and people of color.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

They make me wonder if their Christianity is only for straight, middle - class, white people?»

Many white folks still insisted that Negroes were inferior people doomed to second - class citizenship.

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

Although more numerous among the white peoples, and tending towards the lower social class, they will appear, at least occasionally, in every compartment into which the human race is divided.

White children who are having a hard time in first encounters with blacks are often also dealing with a different class for the first time, as well as with people whose socialization is slightly different from their own.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

Now, granted, all of these stories come from white, middle - class people, most with higher education.

One of the older couples stood in the middle and slowly chanted «om nama shivaya,» a Hindu mantra and a white - person yoga - class classic.

The structures of the romance genre — which rely upon white, middle - class, able - bodied, and heterosexual norms of social mobility and citizenship through the marriage union — make a nonstereotypical and nondiscriminatory inclusion of black and disabled people quite difficult, since social mobility, rights of citizenship, and marriage are still actively denied to black and disabled people.»

We are trying to expand our «demographic» shall we say, to include people who are less «like» me and Lisa (single 30 - something middle - class never - married white hetero Western - cultured females).

The political left has taken up this principle with enthusiasm - in fact, it often feels like there's an army of white middle class left - wingers looking for things to be offended by on other people's behalf.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

Meanwhile, since the majority of this country is white, and the ruling class is largely white, people, even non-whites, will tend to have a favorable (or at least neutral) view of whites, while other races will have a negative - to - neutral favorability.

Problems of access apply in various measure to worthy and intelligent white, black, Asian, and other working - class or disadvantaged people.

It's basically a theory that white people in western countries have more societal privileges than people of other ethnicities who come from the same political, social and economic class.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

That president does not explicitly promise to pardon those who commit crimes against this class of people, but starts issuing daily pardons for white Christians arrested the day prior for those crimes.

If you look at the demographics, at where we need to be at the next election, we need more people in the north voting for us, more of what they call here «blue collar» workers and I call the white working class.

'' [White working class people] would like the Labour leader and me to be cheering on the England rugby team... with a flag with a shirt and shorts drinking a beer like they're doing.

What appears to be unacceptable is to criticise working class people who may be nationalistic — or even post a tweet with a photo of a house decked out in large English flags, with a white van in the drive.

So what are these supposedly forward - thinking people saying - that a woman's place in politics is just to be SEEN to be there - presumably to detract attention from the fact that it's white middle class blokes running the show?»

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

This was at a time when Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper were on our screens - characters that, in 2006, a survey found that 70 % of TV industry professionals believed were an accurate reflection of white working class young people.

«Rather than wringing our hands about the white working class and immigration, we need to deal with the underlying issues that make white and black people hostile to immigration: things like housing and job security.

London, with its much younger, more highly educated and much more ethnically diverse population, very clearly illustrated the limits of Ukip's appeal which is primarily to older, white, working - class people.»

Already, it is clear that once again the House of Commons is too white and too male and too middle class to reflect the people who voted for it.

Debra Smith, head of the family and community advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, acknowledges the opioid epidemic has become more of an issue for white, middle - class people.

«It was just a matter of time before someone sought to tap into the rich electoral potential inside of a group of people as sizeable as the white working class,» says Justin Gest, a political scientist at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.

Many tests are the product of middle - class, middle - brow, middle - aged, middle Americans and may not be appropriate for people from other groups, leading to the charge that personality tests are biased in favour of the white, middle - class males.

In 2006 Pierre agreed to participate in a small world experiment with Watts and ABC News that addressed two of the criticisms of small world research: that no studies had ever been played out in real time, and that the people who had participated in the chains tended be educated, white, and middle or upper class.

«But white working class people and African - American working class people are in the same boat due to job destruction.

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

The bad news: Only 1.5 people are eating the «ideal» healthy diet, and, of those who are eating better generally, most are white and middle to upper class.

The author interviewed three yoga instructors of color who each talk about the challenge of practicing yoga in predominantly white classes, and the power or relief they felt being in a room of people living similar experiences.

I am a white woman in south - central Seattle, a yoga instructor, and someone who loves having all kinds of people come to my open, community classes.

The general public follows in the midth century, the need to advertise for a husband or wife was still considered a «failure» and associated with deviant behavior for many judgmental straight, white, middle - to - upper class people.