Sentences with phrase «discriminate against black people»

Up until that time, some communities attempted to discriminate against black people and members of other minority groups.

More than 100 black Secret Service agents argued that the security agency discriminated against black people by promoting less - qualified candidates over them from 1995 to 2005.

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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.

Ironic how people get worked up when the Los Angeles Clipper's owner doesn't want his girlfriend to associate with black people, but don't have a problem discriminating against anyone who is not Christian, or don't care that the founding fathers were some of the most racist people on Earth and actually owned slaves.

Some people believe (often on theological grounds) that it is all right to discriminate against blacks and women.

Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.

Anytime a black person alleges that they have been racially discriminated against, they are viewed as a «Don King» sort of radical until they can prove racism did, in fact, take place.

She is the leader, she's presiding over legislation that is discriminating against a whole group of people who came from the Commonwealth, who suffered racism when they came over - the no «blacks, no Irish, no dogs» - and now they're having to relive that trauma all over again because of Theresa May.»

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