Sentences with phrase «confront systemic racism»

After Iron Fist was rightly criticized for racial insensitivities, using the character's well - established comic book friendship with one of Marvel's most prominent black superheroes to directly confront systemic racism is a bold, smart move.

It is about acknowledging and confronting systemic racism, and other isms, that hinder our nation from truly reflecting its citizenry — and its Constitution.

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Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

The opportunity to confront privilege, bigotry and systemic racism is not exclusively a responsibility of the black church or the more liberal / urban wing of evangelicalism.

«Talking to the System,» a bright yellow painting by Purvis Young depicts tension between generations as youth confront systemic and institutional racism.