Sentences with phrase «injustice under the rug»

We have a history of attempting to sweep issues of social injustice under the rug and it is destroying us from the inside out.

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The President has faced criticism in recent months for acknowledging that American history, and indeed Christian history, includes racism, violence, injustice, and oppression — particularly against minority and indigenous people — a reality some would rather sweep under the rug.

Yet that doesn't usually happen when the subject is a stark tale of injustice — in the case of «Strong Island,» the investigative chronicle of a young African - American man's murder, and how the crime was swept under the rug by law enforcement.