Sentences with phrase «of racial bigotry»

This is a shame because the data the districts submit make a strong case for federal investigations — especially when one understands the long history of racial bigotry in the Eastern Shore of the Old Line State.

More importantly, given that rates of suspensions can be as high in mostly - black schools run by black principals (and overseen by superintendents), it's hard to argue whether the problem is one of racial bigotry (as implied by Duncan in his announcement), a matter of class bias (just as likely), or haphazard school and district policies.

Not exact matches

With them, Christians share some of their bigotries and discriminations (women, s - exual, racial), so while I don't believe, it does not make me unconcerned.

In her groundbreaking book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander notes that «racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

I strongly believe the selection of an actor for the «Devil / Satan» role who is African = American and resembles President Obama is a deliberate and obvious racial and political attempt to promote fear in those people who are looking for excuses to rationalize their own bigotry and promote their white supremacist ideologies.

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

He had been an early opponent of the Nazis, denouncing their racial bigotry, their obsession with attempting to revive pagan myths to replace Christian worship and their nationalising of various properties belonging to the Church.

While I think we certainly used to be, there are plenty of great nations that have followed in our footsteps of democracy while avoiding the pitfalls of violence and racial bigotry.

If you don't know what the comparison is between racial bigotry and homosexual bigotry... then you are either incredibly blind or simply engaging in a tactic of willful denial.

«Donald Trump is nothing more than a two - bit racial arsonist, who for decades has done nothing but fan the flames of bigotry and hatred,» said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D - New York.

Of course, our campaign condemns racism, racial violence and bigotry of anyonOf course, our campaign condemns racism, racial violence and bigotry of anyonof anyone.

Fani - Kayode said, «Those that came to power last year on the mantle of Islamic domination, religious intolerance and racial discrimination and that espoused the most hideous form of ethnic bigotry and religious fanaticism certainly have a lot of soul - searching to do because their friends in the Obama White House are on their way out and their darling Hilary is not coming in to replace him.

Even when scenes of macabre and extreme racial bigotry cause whiplash, the next quiet moment inside an earthy landscape brings it back to a place of warm escapism.

No Child Left Behind, on the books since 2002, was supposed to close achievement gaps for disadvantaged students (racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, youngsters with special needs and English learners) and to eliminate what President George W. Bush decried as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

One issue always left out of the assessment conversation is the historic role of testing in sustaining a discriminatory message that further promulgates ideas of inferiority, eugenics, and racial bigotry.

The high - profile slayings of black men such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray just exemplify the problems of overmilitarized police departments, overcriminalization of youth, perpetuation of state - sanctioned racial bigotry, drug war overkill, and violations of civil liberties by law enforcement that have been detailed at length by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians alike.

Meanwhile the consequences of America's racial and religious bigotry still damages the country in the form of an education crisis in which 1.1 million children from the original Class of 2012 will drop out of school and fall into poverty and prison.

An initial question intrigued me on visiting the American modernist painter Beauford Delaney's Parisian show Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color: How did a black gay painter remain so full of light and joy during the struggle against racial and sexual bigotry taking place in the 1960s?

For the exhibition, Blake illuminates these new and evolving forms of representation and examines the implications these developments have had on art and social action through a curatorial approach that draws on their own preoccupation with themes of interracial desire, same - sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry.

Of course, with the first black president in office, we surely have abolished racial profiling in the criminal justice system and bigotry across the nation... right?