Sentences with phrase «many black folks»

«I don't appreciate seeing black folks that are unlit,» she told Buzzfeed.

But Jamil Smith manages to also gently weave in the pained nostalgia of black folk, who have also turned the man into a myth.

«Black folks built this city.

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

In the 50's, 60's, and earlier, black folks were forbidden, by law, in various states from marrying white folks.

Them white liberals love black folk.

Does the GOP and the Mormon church think black folks are that stupid?

Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

I didn't realize black folks were allowed in the cult.

Yet, for some strange reason, York god didn't think that black folks or women needed that same right.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

And with the inclusion of gods we get — Muslims killing Christians Christians killing Muslims Jews killing Palestinians Christians discriminating against black folks, women, and gays.

Because I feel like, if we're gonna go back through history, the moral rudder of the American Church has been the black folks.

For example, the white folks expected an hour - long service, but for the black folks a two - hour service seemed abbreviated.

They insult Black folks and nothing happens, they insult Jewish fellows and nothing happens, they spew hatred against gays, and nothing happens.

I wonder how we worship the same God, when Phil Robertson's God seems to hate gay folks and be perfectly fine with the subjugation of Black folks (and women).

Improving the economic conditions of black folk will also hasten their freedom.

It's like a church running a program for black folks — telling them that even though they are black, they shouldn't act on that blackness.

During three centuries of slavery, black folk learned how to sublimate their anger; they increased their chances for survival by tolerating the oppressors.

All black folk should acknowledge this aspect of black experience in America.

The history of the Israelites» bondage in Egypt and their subsequent freedom is a critical corollary to the experience of black folk in America — except that the Pharaohs of modern times continue to oppress us.

Major Jones, in The Color of God, asserts that black theology encourages black folk to be free «from their traditional fear of whites, so that they not only can articulate their feelings but also so that they will act upon them.»

Black folk expect the preacher to reassure them of God's power, not to question or doubt it.

Therefore, black folk should assume control of their hard - earned money and invest it in financial institutions that will challenge traditional models of risk management.

Black theology uses the language of the masses to make plain the feelings, hopes, dreams, experiences and practices of black folk.

@ Josh — and remember the founding fathers also considered black folks to only be 3/5 of a human.

As long ago as his 1903 book, The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois put forward the idea that blacks might have certain characteristics that whites desperately need.

Black folks please read the evil words towards christians here by radical dems and come home to the party of lincoln who freed ur people from slaves, u can vote for herman cain, hes at the top of all polls now with repubs

There are a few black folks in my predominantly white church who prefer our more subdued service.

-- Black folks voted for Obama, by a 96 % margin.

He contrasts Wright with James Cone, the 1960s proponent of black liberation theology who disparaged a focus on Jesus as Saviour as «Christofascism», along with others who contend that black folk should fnd their primary identity in race rather than religion.

W. E. B. DuBois in his classic volume, The Souls of Black Folk, refers to the issue as a type of «double consciousness.»

When America has made it very difficult for Black folks; their only hope is some PERVERT crook like this one with a Bible in hand just to comfort them and assure them that there's a higher power and that, all will be well against any foe.

That is black folks problems these days.

When are black folks going to wake up from worshiping these «triflin», profit driven, self centered snakeoil salesmen?

I can't STAND silly black folk that keep flocking to these mega churches hoping to get rich!

How long does McDonald hold church services if black folks have very short memories.

Kinda like the Miami Cubans always putting down black folks — just makes you want to laugh out loud.

«Black folks have very short memories,» said Rev. Tim McDonald, senior pastor of First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Black folks stop giving your money to these people, Long, TD and the rest, you are the only one that can get yourself to heaven and the grace of god.

Except for a few older black folks who,..

I think that is code for black folk now need to circle the wagons and pay no attention to the advice of scripture!

Blacks folks don't have short memories, they are still talking about slavery and that happen hundreds of years ago.

Hurston and Walker reclaim two often territories: the language of black folk culture and the experience of uneducated rural southern women.

When I am teaching, I also try to show this fact by including the voices of other black folks who may or may not agree with me.

She was a seamstress, he was a scholar; she made dresses for white women, he preached the gospel to black folk; she had taken no theology courses to enable her to comprehend God's claim on her, while he had studied so much theology that he was not expected to take God's claims seriously.

As a species of folly, Toomer uses the grotesque to communicate the price of redemption for the souls of black folk in the Christ - haunted south.

Set deep in the Georgia cotton fields (southern snow), Toomer's series of vignettes takes the reader on a tour of the souls of black folk and white folk.

There are religious groups here in the US who still think black folks shouldn't be allowed to marry white folks.

Well, the reality is that black folk in America are eerily familiar with what I call «sunken - place theology.»