@kevinokeefe @DigitalLawyer Here's what hasn't changed since 1996 — a room full
of old white men.
These selections are people that have distinguished themselves by their contributions to the world of film, and those lambasting the Academy for being full
of old white men will be happy to see it's a pleasantly diverse list.
On the page, it's lots
of old white men in rooms talking to each other, so the challenge for me was to see if I could create an inherently cinematic piece that starts off quite light and funny and then becomes something like a political thriller», Wright had said in an interview with The Independent.
He notices the place is full of portraits
of old white men (even Karl Marx) and blurts about getting his «rape whistle» ready.
To paraphrase something I heard on the radio this morning, we may never again have an election where you have to pick between two sets
of old white men.
It was told to them by a bunch
of old white men surrounded by dozens of teen age wives.
Some traditionally Republican states in the south will be moving Democratic as immigrants take the place
of old white men.
A bunch
of old white men that like little boys... that straight people actually give $ $ to every year so upon their deaths, they will live FOREVER?
A very famous entrepreneur once told me that she left her great executive role because, simply, «one woman standing in a room full
of old white men wasn't going to do very much.»
Listen to the analysts who have told them that they can't be the party
of older white men and win general elections.
«When people think of a doctor or a professor or somebody in charge, a lot of people think
of an old white man with a beard, and that's something I'm never going to be,» she says.
The immediate success of the record attracts the interest
of an older white man named Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti), who sells himself to E as manager and then insinuates himself into the tight structure of the group.
Not exact matches
For his part, Barry Glassman, CFP, founder and president
of Glassman Wealth Services, pointed out that it's crucial the financial advisory community — dominated by
older white men — evolve to better serve and ever more diverse U.S. market.
The shooting death
of an 18 - year -
old black
man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year -
old white police officer, and the weeks
of protest that followed.
Smith often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale
old formats like panels
of aging
white men debating politics.
This strategy
of searching for common ground before a meeting was particularly effective when a new contact was more obviously dissimilar from a director, for example when a young black woman meeting with an
older white man spent time considering their career parallels before their get together.
There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy
of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman
of colour in a town run by
old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.
Obviously, today's followers
of Paul et al's «magic -
man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic -
man atonement, and infalliable,
old, European,
white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption
of said sacrifices.
Obviously, today's followers / singers
of Paul et al's «magic -
man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about virgin births and bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic -
man atonement, and infallible,
old, European,
white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption
of said sacrifices.
I had the option
of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because
of what I saw as a church run by a bunch
of old,
white men out
of touch with the needs
of women and people
of diverse backgrounds.
A devastating question if we think
of God as an
old man in the sky with a long
white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible
old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»
The
old man, whose
white beard flowed down to his chest, stood and held a ladder that extended to the top
of the wall.
Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go o
Of course if anyone looks up, «No
man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner
of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go o
of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary
of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go o
of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names,
White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a
man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year
old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.
How really out
of touch you are that you echo another radical bunch
of foolishness from an
old white angry
man!
They met with hugs and kisses, these
old,
white - bearded
men representing two
of the
oldest ecclesiastical sees in Christendom.
In fact, I studied Physics and I am inclined to think that we all want to believe in the big bang becasue it is simple and it conjures up all kinds
of imaginary causes such as a creative
old man with a long
white beard floating out in vast void in need
of excitement.
Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally
of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course
of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans,
old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin»
Man» swingers, Black Panthers v.
white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all
of them and the Establishment.
The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks
of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year
old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few
of you who they have managed to insult this past year.
With this faith, we will be able to achieve this new day, when all
of God's children — black
men and
white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics — will be able to join hands and sing with the Negroes in the spiritual
of old.
I think most
of the Americans are in lost... as most
of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff
men outside
of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front
of the Church an
old man's statue with long beard standing with extending
of both hand... some
of the status are blank,
white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an
old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number
of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name
of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure
of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave
of material things...
And in addition, you can't tell me definitively that the yellow, black, and
white striped 1000 year
old, and 100 foot tall polka dotted vampire lady in black stockings isn't alive and doesn't exist, speaking perfect English even though she has never visited our planet, on the dark side
of the moon, and has never been seen by the golden crown
of creation, god's highest achievement,
man, who dwelleths at the very epi - center
of the universe, surrounded on all four sides by the heavenly spheres and angels, and overseen by god in heaven bless her extensive gold threaded wardrobe.
Obviously, today's followers (i.e. BO and MR et al)
of Paul et al's «magic -
man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic -
man atonement, and infallible,
old,
white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption
of said sacrifices.
The country would still be run by
white men, but not uniformly by scions
of the
old - stock families.
How can it claim to bridge the divisions in human society — divisions between Greek and barbarian, bond and free, between
white and black, Aryan and non-Aryan, employer and employed — if, when
men are drawn into it, they find that another division has been added to the
old ones — a division
of Catholic from Evangelical, or Episcopalian from Presbyterian or Independent?
Or pervert the birth
of The Holy One with flying reindeers and a
white old man that has the ability to boost retail sales galore.
Obviously, today's two billion followers
of Paul et al's (e.g. G. Beck) «magic -
man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic -
man atonement, and infallible,
old, European / Utah
white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption
of said sacrifices.
Honestly I think at the end
of the day a lot
of it has to do with these rich
old white men so stuck in the past that the thought of a n!gger in the «White» House really, really upsets
white men so stuck in the past that the thought
of a n!gger in the «
White» House really, really upsets
White» House really, really upsets them.
(
old white gov
man of a overwhelmingly christain state).
A recent survey showed that the majority
of people questioned pictured God as «an
old man with a long
white beard up in the sky.»
You see, I also do not believe that God is a
white bearded
old man in a nightshirt... The God (dess) I understand is too huge, too eternally absolute and too immense an ultimate and perfect Love and a complete manifestation
of Allness to be limited by human concepts.
In New York, in what is now being classified as an act
of terror, a
white 28 - year -
old man sought out, stabbed and killed a black 66 - year -
old on the streets
of New York.
And
Old white men should just stay out
of the issue.
It is
old white men losing their control
of society as a whole and they are just grasping at memories
of the good
old days... blacks were owned, women had no rights, the world was flat, the earth was the center
of the universe...
Alfred Noyes, in his poem «The Torch - Bearers,» describes Galileo showing his new telescope to the senators
of Florence; and the
old men, wagging their
white beards, say to one another,
Even a picture
of that rotten, evil
old man dressed all in
white and gold gives me the creeps!
When the author recalls the long gallery
of persons whom, in the course
of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy
of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and
white,
men and women, young and
old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.
Let's put the party
of old rich
white men back in power, just like the Founders
of the country wanted.
Your Party
of bitter
old white men who hate women's rights and all other minorities is becoming extinct in today's America.
Welcoming him into the shack, Spencer informs a somewhat puzzled Mack — who always imagined the Lord as an «
old friendly
white man» — that God can adapt his appearance to suit the needs
of his creatures.
Who cares what a bunch
of old constipated racist
white men think?