Sentences with phrase «of black friends»

That was the end of Dean's baseball career, and of his black friends.

«Dear white people,» she says, «the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two.

She announces, for example, that the quota of black friends a white person must have in order to avoid seeming racist has been raised to two.

And if the stories of our black friends, family, and neighbors aren't enough to convince the doubters, then maybe the numbers will.

Most of my black friends don't either.

The comic elements, especially the banter between the boys (part scared teens, part Cool Hand Luke wanna - bes) work well, and the adventure story surrounding Stanley's rescue of his black friend Zero, who attempts to escape, provides both high drama and moving human emotion.

Not exact matches

Peter Stormare, a face any Big Lebowski or Fargo fans know and love, plays a black - suited surrogate who will fill in wherever your life needs you — jobs, lady friends, what not — so you can focus on «your responsibility to kick ass» with the new Call of Duty release.

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We have been at the mercy of our friends in the Middle East and even have allowed terrible regimes to remain in power in order to sustain access to the black gold.

Just a classic general equilibrium models, efficient markets, smooth continuous price movements, the Phillips curve, Black - Scholes — I'm good friends with Myron Scholes, and he's taught me a lot, but there's a lot of flaws in that model.

Summary: «Two black women who are best friends navigate the pitfalls of their personal and professional lives in south Los Angeles.»

Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family.

Over the past year, I've seen friends and others in my network lose their minds in anticipation of the premiere of Black Panther this weekend.

This year, other academics have cited homophily in elucidating everything from why teenagers choose friends who smoke and drink the same amount that they do to «the strong isolation of lower - class blacks from the interracial - marriage market.»

The BLM Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office, Friends of Black Rock - High Rock, Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Nevada Outdoor School are hosting the annual Black Rock Rendezvous event May 25 - 28 at the Black Rock Desert.

The move follows the arrest of two black men who were sitting at a Philadelphia shop waiting for a friend on April 12.

Did you know that one of his very good friends was a black man, who he ordained to a high church position?

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

I've been convicted before when I've seen black friends lament on social media for the lack of white Christians speaking out against injustice.

A friend of the man accused of shooting nine black Christians during a Bible study at a church in the... More

Some ministers later returned to Mississippi to visit their black friends, and some still correspond regularly with their hosts — small acts suggestive of the ties that were established.

In the same way, African American friends have said that the fact that the Black church survived or that Native Americans still love Jesus is one of the greatest signs that God is at work in the world that we can ever imagine, considering the hideous, terrible things that we have done in His name.

Two of the group of up to six thugs who attacked the teenager and his friend Duwayne Brooks, simply because they were black, have been convicted of murder, but the rest have evaded justice.

SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN)-- The Food Network announced Friday that it will not renew the contract of Paula Deen after she admitted using a racial epithet — but a black pastor who is friends with the celebrity chef said she «can't be a racist.»

However, since my best friend, bother, and one of the loves of my life are all xian, and I have other friends that are muslim, gay, asian and black, I wouldn't consider myself xiaphobic, intolerant, or bigoted.

Recently, a friend who is black shared an insight with me about people who riot (which, by the way, is not something unique to people of color).

«Some of my best friends are black.»

In some neighborhoods, one in three young black males is working as a «snitch,» forced to testify against friends and family under the threat of prosecution.

I remember being at a church in Virginia, and the only black woman was the maid of my friend's mother.

I'm white and attended a black church recently with a friend, and while I was certainly made to feel welcome, I must say I felt a bit out of place.

After a bit of time talking with friends afterwards, I came home and took off my black clothes, put on my grubby shorts.

The younger generation of black adults and young children are having plenty of white friends, and black / white couples are at an all - time high.

If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.

My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers of a planned «March for Science» had tweeted that «colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer -, trans -, intersex - phobia, & econ justice are scientific issues [black power....

The only problem with such black and white answers is they run in stark contrast to the love that permeates from one of my best friends.

Again, if you read my postings, you can see that I have an extremely diverse circle of very close friends: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Gay, Lesbian, straight, white, black, hispanic, asian, etc...

A few Lenten seasons ago, my friend Ed Covert put up three crosses draped in black on the front lawn of St. Stephen's Episcopal and received a dozen calls complaining that the crosses made the neighborhood look bad.

In The Black Tower (1975) a convalescent Dalgleish has gone to the Dorset coast to visit Father Baddeley, an old friend of his father.

To franklin Graham all I can Say is you choose a cult member, an organization that proudly admits its a mormman group over a fellow Christian, let me just say a lot of my black Christian friends thinks that one decision divided our races more then anything in the past thirty years but we still consider those that feel that way family members although you may not.

I became friends with a rather large number of «coloreds» and blacks from South Africa and of whites in the resistance movement.

White Northern liberals represented themselves as the friends of the Negro and deceived King and many other blacks into believing that they really wanted to achieve racial justice in America.

If you look at the middle, the normal republicans and the normal democrats we're really not that different, I'm a female republican and some of my best friends have been black.

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

The heartbreaking death of Trayvon Martin has provided several windows of opportunity for a friend here in Durham, N.C. to gently educate me about the realities of raising a black son in this country.

Message to Hispanics, Blacks + Unsuspecting Women: The Dem party (of today) is not your friend... the leftist agenda is to keep you stupid and dependent... unable to make your own decisions and create your own wealth (I.e. jobs, economy).

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

Give my greetings to his black hen...» After a further reference to the tiresome shining of the sun, he continued: «I am quite rough and coarse, large, grey, green, overburdened... sometimes in order to survive I have to force myself to make a joke... Greet all good gentlemen and friends.

I did it when, on a double - date, my friend's boyfriend used an ugly variation of the n - word to describe a group of Black children at the park.

She ignored her friend waving her away from this strange group of twenty - odd black and white robed friars.

My friend however disagreed with me, citing there are physical attributes that make us who we are (black, white, male, female, etc....) and by being transplanted into that body we take on those characteristics and thus the body holds a key piece of our «soul» or personality that effects any brain within.