Sentences with phrase «history with racism»

Southern Baptists have a bad history with racism.

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So easy to dismiss is The Arrogance of Faith that Christian readers might dismiss with it the awful history of their churches» complicity with racism.

It is only slander if it isnt true LDS is a cult by any definition and quite a twisted one at that with a history of racism and treason

People (Jews, blacks) are screaming about racism, etc. yet they constantly bringing those differences with thing like that: Jews and baseball, Black history month, ridiculous.

@Floridamom Are you familiar with the LDS history of racism as theology?

The folks start up again: «What a bunch of wing - nuts» «it is disgraceful to cheer this country, with its history of racism»

Author and activist Bryan Stevenson was recently interviewed on The Daily Show, and in his conversation with Jon Stewart, noted that Americans often have a difficult time acknowledging and confessing those corporate injustices — like racism — that are a part of our shared history and a part of our present - day culture.

We find ourselves with not only more than two primary cultures and traditions trying to live in harmony, but there is an extensive history of pain caused by racism in our country.

It is for this reason that we Americans, with our history of slavery and racism, so readily recognize and facilely revile the apartheid system of the Republic of South Africa.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

The history of white male chauvinism, with its interstructuring of sexism and racism, is bent on alienating black women and white women and making their contrary experiences incommunicable to each other.

He spent years as a Freedom Rider, working with different groups to fight Jim Crow and the racism that makes up so much of the fabric of American history.

Morbid Racism: Active racism combined with psychopathic tendencies (usually possessed by a charismatic lead figure) lead to unspeakable evil that have occurred in history and which I am not very comfortable talking Racism: Active racism combined with psychopathic tendencies (usually possessed by a charismatic lead figure) lead to unspeakable evil that have occurred in history and which I am not very comfortable talking racism combined with psychopathic tendencies (usually possessed by a charismatic lead figure) lead to unspeakable evil that have occurred in history and which I am not very comfortable talking about.

«I struggle with how the particular facts cited on eg working hours or racism can be «ahistorical», but look forward to finding out...» Perhaps you are labouring under the middle class leftwing relativism that believes that history is all just opinion, and that all facts are thereby historical.

Though the IDC was white and predominately male for most of its history and aligns itself with a Republican conference that is entirely white, adding a Latina has allowed the breakaway Democrats to falsely contend that all criticism of the IDC amounts to racism.

Their fears are not allayed by last week's poll showing that the bankers» cheerleader with a history of casual racism is now the most trusted politician in the country.

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When black women interacts with black men they share their history like slavery, racism which is known to both of them.

Having An Ally Against Racism Outside Your Race Is Admirable: With all the heinous events we have seen involving black Americans recently and throughout history it's hard not to feel alone sometimes.

The ideological divide between Bisbee citizens who want to reckon with their history and those who want to explain it away mirrors the conversations around racism, sexual harassment, gun control, and any number of issues plaguing the nation.

After hitting us with the raw facts of the crime, as well as a phone call in which he attempts to connect with the original prosecutor and is stone - walled by her cold refusal to talk, Ford goes back into his family's history to unveil a story of racism and optimism, of what hope and hardship and upward mobility meant to a working - class African - American family in the middle of the century.

In other words, he lets the audience sort out how to think and feel about the characters» decisions during such a dark time in world history, and offers up — but doesn't bang us over the head with — comparisons between racism in the United States and anti-Semitism in Germany.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

Common Core is designed, Moore insists, «to smear the Western and American tradition with the brush of sexism, racism, and all the other charges we have come to expect from the Left against this country's long history of freedom.»

As Stern Strom explains, after so many years, «we've been able to demonstrate what we said we were doing, in a full way,» in part because there's a much better understanding of the complex issues Facing History explores with students and teachers — issues like racism, prejudice, hatred, difference, and anti-Semitism.

Through rigorous historical analysis combined with the study of human behavior, Facing History's approach heightens students» understanding of racism, religious intolerance, and prejudice; increases students» ability to relate history to their own lives; and promotes greater understanding of their roles and responsibilities in a demHistory's approach heightens students» understanding of racism, religious intolerance, and prejudice; increases students» ability to relate history to their own lives; and promotes greater understanding of their roles and responsibilities in a demhistory to their own lives; and promotes greater understanding of their roles and responsibilities in a democracy.

The event, which took place November 3, 4, and 5 at HGSE and the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street in Cambridge, brought the AME conference together, for the first time, with the annual meeting sponsored by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit organization that helps increase student and teacher awareness of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism by examining the historic conditions that led to examples of collective violence such as the Holocaust.

It's also important to say that this country has had a long history of struggling with the question of race and racism.

In honor of Women's History Month, we are partnering with Black Female Project to host a conversation with Black Female Teachers about how they navigate structural racism and sexism in the classroom and beyond.

Facing History and Ourselves equips students with skills they need to stand up against incipient racism, prejudice, and antisemitism.

With these #KnowYourTruth graphics, we are celebrating the long history of communities of color who have organized better school options for their kids, and are exposing the systematic racism that still exists in the public education system today.

A timely addition to the 2017 exhibition calendar, the British Museum's spring blockbuster will bring together works by Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha and Kara Walker to reveal how artists have responded to key events in US history over the last 50 years — from the assassination of JFK to the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis, as well as their personal experiences with racism and gender inequality.

Perhaps a «new history» for Chicago is a rewritten one: a reckoning with the myriad ways racism has divided and pressurized the city over decades, and a set of proposed solutions to the problem.

With his distinctive style of figuration, Colescott laid bare issues of systemic racism and the omission of black subjects within the genre of history painting, offering up a disturbing yet poignant critique of male chauvinism, sexual misconduct, and interracial relationships.

The intentions of these performances, along with the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa, share some similarities with recent calls in the United States to remove Confederate monuments and flags from public places in order to address the legacy of racism and violence in the country's history.

Darien Wendell is a transdisciplinary artist whose artistic practice is preoccupied with deconstructing and reconfiguring our bodies, histories, and selves as they are known through systems of domination, colonialism, racism, sexism, oppression, and repression.

«Despite Iowa's impressive civil - rights history on the books, the state has grappled with racial prejudices and hostility and systemic racism that have stilted the growth and development of its black population and legal community,» she said.

While many of the works here speak in the more coded languages of color, patterns and symbols, «Overstood» is a distinct homage to African - American activist history — but also a reminder of this country's continuing struggles with racism and racist brutality.

But his work echoes and resonates with American history, slavery, repression and racism.

Lee's predominant use of black and dark tones of clay acts as a metaphor for the dark side of history, or the landscape of the nation in upheaval with increasing reports of violence motivated by racism.

She chatted with us about a number of topics, including the practice of responsive art history, Lewis's own racism, and the problem of Kara Walker.

For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Awol Erizku «collapses America's history of institutionalized racism, and its counter strategies, from the late 1960s into the future to better understand our political moment.»

The infamously outspoken (and masked) women's activism and art collective, Guerrilla Girls, is also celebrating its 30th anniversary with Twin Cities Takeover, a three - month - long series of events and pop - ups including exhibitions at institutions like Walker Art Center and Hopkins Center for the Arts that examine sexism, racism, and the pioneering history of the Guerrilla Girls themselves.

Corresponding to her critically acclaimed exhibition Harriet Tubman and Other Truths [which was co-produced by Grounds For Sculpture and Goya Contemporary, with guest curators Patterson Sims and Lowery Sims], this latest exhibition [curated by Amy Eva Raehse] further develops narrative around social and political injustices, sexism, racism, violence, systems of power, and biases within the artist's personal history, and our collective experience.

In a manner free of any taboos or false modesty, she deals with the most unpleasant aspects of racism and violence in American history.

But even though Day for Night has its share of politically charged works — with American artists like Nari Ward, Dash Snow, Matthew Day Jackson, Jamal Cyrus, Robert A. Pruitt, and Dawolu Jabari Anderson offering overt criticism of nationalism, the war on terror, manifest destiny, and racism — a general preoccupation with art history undermines the exhibition's transgressive potential, rendering it a series of academic exercises.

He singled out the image of the figurine — originally exhibited by Wilson with twenty other photographs in a family tree — like arrangement (a lineage of racism and amnesia)-- and enlarged it to reveal a crack along the figure's neck, a symbolic and chance embodiment of the violent effects of history.

Circle (1973) is one of a cycle of very large multiple canvas works Andrews completed the early 70s dealing with both racism and sexism done at an intersectional moment in American history when the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and the Women's Liberation movement reached a peak of visibility and even transformational effectiveness, as the nation approached its Bicentennial.

Those choices are especially important in a society like ours, with a long history of both criminal violence and official racism.

-- not to discomfort with a history of racism but to recognition that there can't be very many more public holidays created, and politicians have a LOT of groups they'd like to stroke.