Sentences with phrase «many white liberals»

King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

You know they love their white liberal MASTER, to think for themselves, to form their own opinion, to voice their concerns, and to bring black issues to light is not allowed.

@n900 mixalot what are you blah blah blah about are you one of those slavacrats agreeing with everything your white liberal master is telling you about the world.

Them white liberals love black folk.

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

But for some reason you white liberal think it's wrong for a blackman if that's what you want call him specifically provides help for people who look like him, you say it's wrong.

@DC so what are you saying you white liberals are sure talking about the past of Jim Crow you know that old Jimmy Crow was a Democract idea.

By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

The political version of crying racism in the face of every form of opposition to, say, busing or affirmative action has brought on the current crisis in the politics of both blacks and white liberals.

White liberal guilt is a cultivated taste, and fewer people are making the effort.

Here Third World women must package their stories in English, and in terms white liberal theologians will want to read.

For both many African - Americans and many white liberals, to speak openly of this personal responsibility is, in effect, to exonerate European Americans for their complicity in deeply embedded racist practices.

Too often, white liberals try to demonstrate their racial generosity by insisting that color doesn't make a difference, and that aside from the natural accident of color we have in common our humanity.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

This is the dilemma facing affluent white liberals: They want to lead a coalition in favor of equality, but their identity places them under suspicion.

The Democrats are acting crazy thanks to racial politics — specifically, the angry racial politics of upper - middle - class white liberals.

Part of this is ideology, of course, since affluent white liberals are the most extreme segment of the Democratic coalition.

The Trump administration, for all of its obnoxiousness, seems most to have irritated affluent white liberals, rather than the nonwhite and relatively poor who are supposedly Trump's great targets.

White liberals who might once have joined this observer in being exasperated by such intransigence now took it to be their duty to go to almost any lengths to react «constructively.»

White liberals, guilt - ridden (I write from experience), accepted this spurious definition at face value.

He called white liberals «foxes» in contrast to Southern «wolves.»

Even Martin King did not ask that question so as to expose the flawed white liberal thinking about God that he had encountered in graduate school.

Hard feelings were precisely what now constituted in the minds of white liberals the essential manifestation of black authenticity.

Northern white liberals hated Malcolm for his uncompromising, brutal honesty.

We spent hours working with a young white liberal.

Despair at King's murder was the response of many blacks and some white liberals, but others were not distressed, and most did not care.

Jackson is an African - American with historically close ties to teachers unions, Rangel's Harlem machine and to an array of predominantly white liberal clubs in the southern reaches of the district.

The idea was to unite the borough's delegation and possibly bid for support from white liberals and women from other parts of the state.

For them, abortion is a «tragedy» because its not part of the Margaret Sanger - inspired genocide white liberals have waged against African - Americans for the last 40 years.)

White liberals dissatisfied with Mr. Rangel, Latinos in East Harlem and voters who turned out for the first time in last year's mayoral primary — so - called «surge voters» — will be among those the Espaillat camp hopes to reach, the source said.

Stoller also compares this race to the 2006 Ned Lamont - Joe Lieberman primary, and suggests that «the Occupy bloc has emerged» (that is, «teachers, librarians, fracktivists, techies and publishers» in the 30 - 45 year old white liberal demo).

Bonnie Wong, president of Asian Women in Business, said she saw Mr. Stringer making a concerted effort to reach beyond his roots as «an Upper West Side white liberal.»

But the mayor's poll numbers remain strong with his base of black, brown, and white liberal voters, and right now there is no plausible challenger to his left in 2017, when de Blasio is up for re-election.

He reminded me of the guilt - ridden white liberals in the»60s who invited the Black Panthers into their wealthy homes and thought they were so chic.

Get Out is sharp and cutting during its buildup — you'll never want this section to end — and the addition of two awkwardly ingratiating adults (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) makes a comic meal out of white liberal privilege with every «cool» handshake and turn of phrase («Hug me, my man!»

There was no more perfect movie for this year than Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» with its uncanny mix of horror and comedy, and the way it eviscerated the complicit (white liberals) rather than more obvious targets.

Peele's «Get Out» is a remarkedly assured black comedy (pun intended) that relies on exploitation tropes (startle effects, etc.) to comment on what the Black Lives Matter movement has insisted all along: though white liberal Americans may fool themselves into thinking otherwise, racism still permeates suburban gated communities.

8 LADY MACBETH (William Oldroyd) The exact opposite of Get Out ---- here the bad white liberals actually win.

shock of Get Out that did the most to make white liberals squirm.

If Peele goes more for the jugular than the subtext in the final scenes, it doesn't distract from the provocative blend of scares and smarts he uses to stick it to the white liberal elite.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

(One is also reminded of the character in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace who uncomplainingly accepts her rape by three black men out of white liberal guilt.)

Our emotions, therefore, are Chris» emotions as he comes under attack from this white liberal community.

The film about race: «Get Out» harks back to the situation depicted in «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,» with its story of a white woman bringing home her black boyfriend to meet her white liberal parents.

But here's the thing: Even before the parents are revealed as monsters, they're presented as objectionable simply for being white liberals who say gauche things, like assuring their guest that they would have voted for a third Obama term.

Racism is the word no one has the bad manners to utter, but Peele and his actors have great fun showing us white liberals trying and failing not to be bothered by blackness.

«Get Out» hits with the impact of a bombshell in the supposed «post-racial» landscape of America, lampooning not the overtly racist (they're scary enough) but the affluent white liberal set who think they have transcended concerns of prejudice while remaining oblivious to their racial micro-aggressions.

Granted, Get Out is more concerned with a very specific sort of white liberal racism than the more traditional KKK style, one predicated on hiding prejudices behind an exterior of hollow inclusivity, but its racial sentiments feel undeniably prescient considering how the rest of 2017 ended up playing out.

Jordan Peele's «Get Out» is, again, a work of savvy craft that pulls an unsuspecting (white) viewer into a Sunken Place that other moviegoers know all too well; the movie works as a horror film, as a goof on horror films, as a working street - map of African - American anxieties, and, for a white liberal audience, as an endlessly reflective hall of mirrors that urges a hard, necessary look at oneself.