Sentences with phrase «many black leaders»

The bulk of black voters remained loyal to the Republican Party, and the endorsement of Wilson from DuBois and other black leaders backfired.

But black leaders long ago wrote the comedian off as an «elitist.»

He added that half of his 10 direct reports are women and two are LGBT, and that the company has been working to promote a program called Advancing Black Leaders.

Black leaders, confronting their people's need and their own impotency, believe they must continue to portray blacks as «the conscience of the nation.»

By evoking past suffering and current deprivations experienced by the ghetto poor, some black leaders seek to feed the guilt, and worse, the pity of the white establishment.

The dictates of political advocacy require that personal inadequacies among blacks be attributed to «the system,» and that emphasis by black leaders on self - improvement be denounced as irrelevant, self - serving, dishonest.

If the FBI's own agents did not directly carry out murder plots, the bureau intensified the climate of violence in which black leaders were slain — just as the CIA set the stage for the kidnapping and then the shooting of General Rent Schneider in Chile and the bloody overthrow of Salvador Allende three years later.

Indeed, every black leader who has managed to wield any influence has had to work within such a constraint.

Only in our time has the notion been advanced that «authentic» black leaders should be unencumbered by the need to assuage white opinion.

Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African - Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only.

The moment that mirage is discovered has been a formative experience for many militant black leaders.

It is a pity that, in order to be a respected black leader in the USA, one must call oneself a «reverend» and come up through the ranks as a preacher.

To a delegation of black leaders in 1862, he admitted candidly that «I think your race suffer very greatly....

Black leaders also have much to answer for in allowing the interests of black Americans to be taken hostage by elite and well - funded organizations pushing causes unrelated to, frequently alien to, American blacks.

The mainstream black leaders who dismissed him as a rabble - rouser today embrace his cultural philosophy and urge blacks to love themselves first before they even think about loving others.

The Civil Rights movement was not about hating white people like the Black leaders use now for their platform and it stinks.

However, while BAME members make up an increasing proportion of those sat in the pews, one of the Church of England's most significant black leaders recently voiced concerns about the lack of ethnically diverse leadership in its hierarchy.

Black leaders who stressed the importance of blacks» pride in their heritage and culture feared, plausibly, that true integration in a society in which blacks were a small minority would subordinate black distinctiveness.

The fact is that, even though every other racial minority is at least split on the issue, as a party the Democrats and their black leaders have adopted an exclusively statist understanding of minority rights.

In North Carolina, black leaders helped lead the successful campaign for a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage and domestic partnerships.

On Friday, a handful of black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton and former NAACP leader Julian Bond, released a letter supporting Obama's position on same - sex marriage but expressing respect for those who disagree.

Somewhat to the bewilderment of other black leaders, he patiently courted Vorster's successor, P. W. Botha, explaining that even Moses continued to reason with Pharaoh.

At present the field is in a period of confusion and revaluation as indicated by Cecil Cone's Identity Crisis in Black Theology (1975), Warner Traynham's lectures on black theology (1977) and Peter Paris's Black Leaders in Conflict (1978).

The rabbi, his mother, Mr. Boswell, and all those brave black leaders he heard gave him the message: «You are black.

Nor a word from the «black leaders» of J.Cole's insult to people with autism in his rap «Jodeci Freestyle».

Some strong black leaders joined, and a number of suburban liberals, happy to find a church that really acted on the denomination's social principles, drove into town to work in Trinity's new ministries.

She purchased black newspapers for him to read, introduced him to black history, and, most importantly, made sure he heard in person all the great black leaders and preachers who came to Kansas City.

Cuomo's selection of then - Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy to be his running mate sparked criticism from black leaders — especially the Rev. Al Sharpton — and led Cuomo to promise that his administration, should he be elected governor, would be the most diverse in modern memory.

At 8 p.m., Sen. James Sanders and Black Spectrum Theatre Company members host a discussion and film screening about corruption allegations against black politicians, titled «Attack on Black Leaders: Corruption or Conspiracy?»

After emerging from his Rose Garden following Carl Paladino's landslide win in the Sept. 14 GOP primary and increasing concerns among some members of his party that his above - it - all strategy wasn't resonating with key segments of the electorate, Cuomo met in Harlem with black leaders.

Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.

Facing strong criticism from black leaders, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon said she would no longer refer to «reparations» in her push to legalize marijuana.

While overwhelmingly Democratic African - American voters have received considerable attention from Clinton during the campaign, black leaders refused to reciprocate by coming to her defense when she and her husband came under attack, the source charged.

The Rev. Al Sharpton was one of the expected major black leaders at the meeting with Andrew Cuomo and Bill Thompson, Carl McCall and others this morning, but he didn't come.

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

(The governor ended up doing just that, even though he retained a degree of support from black leaders like Rep. Charlie Rangel (that meant more at the time because it was pre-ethics charges).

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

Brooke was one of the last of a generation of black leaders who personally knew someone who had been born into slavery.

Black leaders started voicing their concern about this state of affairs almost immediately after Cuomo picked Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy — a white male upstater — to be his preferred LG running mate.

At the very least, by letting Paterson know he will not have the backing of the White House, and the world's most important black leader, Obama's easing pressure on Cuomo.

Many Harlem residents are asking that question, as the neighborhood loses its reputation as a place where black leaders are groomed for national greatness.

All these so called black leaders are nothing more than «quota» men.

I hope that some of these «black leaders» told Cuomo that illegal immigrants are hurting their community, and they don't want amnesty.

Where were all these so - called «Black leaders» when Harold Ford, a smart, energenic, experienced, attractive African - American former Congressman, who could easiy have raised the money needed to run a major, successful statewide campaign, was publicly searching for support to challenge the appointed whitenon - entity Senator Kirsten Gillibrand?

As far as politics are concerned it is relevant for black leaders to concern themselves with this issue or they would simply be «so - called» leaders.

De Blasio becomes the first Democratic mayor of New York since David Dinkins, elected the city's first and only black leader in 1989.

A meeting of black leaders was convened last weekend in Mt. Vernon by the Rev. Al Sharpton and attended by people like former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (Cuomo's primary opponent in 2002), political consultants Bill Lynch and Roberto Ramirez (who got caught up in Cuomo's pension fund pay - to - play probe), Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Senate President Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and the NAACP's Hazel Dukes.

Joseph Mascia was suspended as a tenant commissioner at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority pending a hearing to determine whether he will be removed altogether for his racist rant against the city's black leaders.

Inadvertently, they provided an issue around which the more militant black leaders, the men who had already become thoroughly disenchanted with the «clutches of Republican treachery,»» could rally.

In a pre-prepared address to the first Londoner Black Leader dinner, the former South African president said black leaders must act as role models to those who «scale the mountains with you».