Sentences with phrase «inflicted upon black»

Although racism at Garrett and in Evanston was not as obvious as in Arkansas, I believe that it was much more vicious, especially in terms of the structural brutality inflicted upon black dignity and self - confidence.

Not exact matches

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

In the public arena, this meant that blacks were not obliged to «work within the system,» given the brutality inflicted upon them by the system over the decades.

In the end of the matter, it is not about the injustice that was and are inflicted upon the Indians, Chineses, Irish, Blacks, Polish, or Jew.

Goggins» wonderfully - played Chris Mannix, son of a famous Southern rebel, picks away at Warren's calm nature by reminding him of the horrible conditions he faced as a black man; later, Warren does the same with Dern's Gen. Smithers by describing the sexual brutality he inflicted upon Smithers» son after the war.

Excerpted from the Foreword (page viii) One of the challenges of raising a child for African - American parents is that most history books are written from a Eurocentric perspective, and there isn't enough time during Black History Month to undo the damage inflicted upon impressionable young minds the rest of the year.

The Black Church has been a cornerstone of African American community and activism for centuries, and its role has subjected it to repeated and vicious attacks from the original Klu Klux Klan of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, through the rise of the Second Klan in the 1920s and the waves of riots and violence inflicted upon African American communities across the country, to the waves of violence against the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Greenwood:» «Black Square» is a regrettable artistic gesture without content, a piece of conceptual art second only to Duchamp's urinal in terms of the damage inflicted upon the direction and health of painting and sculpture.

However, the deadly carnage that those young black men inflict upon the least among us is not ethereal.