Sentences with phrase «like white minority»

Nelson Mandela the first Black to be elected South African President, was once in jail with a life sentence for the charge of «treason», imposed by a Nazi - like White minority ruling - National party Regime that ruled South Africa for more than 70 years, and he went on to become the President of a fully integrated South Africa.

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As a white female, it would be inappropriate and ignorant for me to use my voice speak out against minority social movements like the Black Lives Matter movement, the Gay Liberation movement, or Latino Social movements.

If, before aa meeting, a white supremacist group came out and priased all the white poeple, and condemned all the rest... if you were a minority in that meeting, would it make you feel like you are an equal participant in that governemnt business, or would you feel ostricized and intentionally singled out?

White males may not actively decide to exclude women, racial minorities or those from different cultural or class backgrounds, but they simply do what is easy and natural and surround themselves with those that look, think and relate like them.

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

Early versions of multiracial congregations saw white attitudes changing to resemble those of minorities like African Americans or Latinos, Emerson said.

«Cuomo, DiNapoli & Duffy — it sounds like a Long Island law firm,» said a minority political operative, citing concerns about the Democrats» all - white ticket.

Trump's surprise rise to become the GOP presidential nominee, built largely on a willingness to openly criticize minority groups and tap into long - simmering racial divisions, has reenergized white supremacist groups and drawn them into mainstream American politics like nothing seen in decades.

Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.

Hamilton would like to believe the uprising against a conference that has propped up an all - white Senate Republican majority — one composed chiefly of suburban and rural lawmakers who do the bidding of the real estate industry and hedge funders — is attacking only minority lawmakers now enjoying new perks.

The action of the play takes place in The Albion pub in London's east end, which, as well as playing host to a karaoke five nights a week, is also the centre of operations for the EPA's leader Paul — a man who thinks his country has changed so much that white, working - class men like him are now a voiceless minority.

Thirteen hours into the government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made a flagrant attempt to peel Trump away from his Republican colleagues and White House aides, saying: «Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with jello, it is next to impossible.»

The Vermont senator, like most white outsider candidates, proved less than stunningly successful in reaching out to minority voters.

He recited a litany of statistics comparing crime rates in minority neighborhoods like Brownsville, Brooklyn, to wealthier, whiter areas, like Murray Hill, Manhattan.

Only now the primarily white police (like the NYPD) have added other minorities to list of people that they abuse.

Like punk's appropriation of West Indian reggae, the white B - boys with their hip - hop and baggy jeans and the young girls curled up with copies of «The Diary of Anne Frank,» the new X-Men made sense of mainstream teen alienation by appropriating the experiences of minority groups coping with much more powerful and genuine forms of discrimination.

Sure, it bothered me that apparently everyone from their planet is blond and Caucasian and there didn't appear to be a single minority to be found in the entire movie, but setting aside the thorough white - washing, I liked it!

If it is a predominately white classroom, please don't use the minority student as the «expert informant» whose job it is to «tell it like it is.»

Schools like Amistad, Paige said later, are helping to close the achievement gap between white and minority students, which he called, «the greatest civil rights issues of our time.»

When most of us think about minority students facing discrimination, we picture an event like the one in Lodi — two kids in a fight, one white, one black, and the black student is allegedly given a tougher punishment than his white peer.

Wouldn't you like to know whether it's more successful with girls or boys, with rich or poor kids, with white or minority students, etc.?

Like many districts, Boston Public Schools (BPS) has initiatives to encourage minorities to become teachers (14 percent of bps students are white, compared with more than 60 percent of bps teachers).

«Whatever people think about minority - populated schools,» Ms. Barnes said, «on a number of levels it's hard to convince white families to come to a school like this.

One issue they touched on — how to bridge the achievement gap between white and minority students in places like Madison and Milwaukee.

Meanwhile it allowed states such as Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee to define proficiency down for poor and minority kids by setting Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that only require districts to ensure that fewer black and Latino kids are learning at proficient levels than their white and Asian counterparts.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

The case also spotlighted the financial gulf between working - class, minority districts like Edgewood and predominantly white, affluent ones such as the Alamo Heights Independent School District, just five miles away.

In other words: in coming decades, more and more white Americans will find themselves more and more a demonstrably minority population, and much like the young woman I met in Hawai'i in the mid-1990s, they are uncomfortable with that and often down right fearful.

Larrick's 1965 landmark article, «The All - White World of Children's Books» (reprinted in Muse, 1997) pointed out that minority children had few opportunities to read about characters like themselves or see themselves in these books.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

But we are also keenly aware that, like most Higher Education institutions in Britain, we need to raise the average level of degree attainment among our black and minority ethnic students, which is significantly lower than that of white UK students.»

We also work very hard to make sure that our session speakers are diverse as well and so we will have — I think we are going to have parity right now between women and minorities and your kind of normal White male speakers that you see in a lot of other conferences, because we want our conference to reflect legal profession and we know that the legal profession is more than just any single type of person, just like there is no single type of law.

Like juvenile detainees nationwide, approximately 90 % of the CCJTDC detainees are males, and most are racial / ethnic minorities.3 The CCJTDC population is 77.9 % African American, 5.6 % non-Hispanic white, 16.0 % Hispanic, and 0.5 % other racial or ethnic groups.

I grew up in a neighborhood everyone called called «Nordeast» in nearby Minneapolis, where a white kid like me was happily in the minority.