Sentences with phrase «of racial issues»

This racial and cultural dialogue has not ended, as the never - ending discourse of racial issues in our society keeps lurking in the background of every social and cultural aspect.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, rather than drama, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial issues.

Am I denying the reality of racial issues?

Whereas the manifest of racial issues is about the black Americans and the Whites, currently, interracial dating and related marriages are not only legally acceptable but also culturally encouraged.

She deplored a lack of awareness of racial issues among staff and students and an unwillingness to tackle the issue.

Preschoolers are too young to process the complexities of racial issues.

It is tempting to allow a child to remain blissfully ignorant of racial issues for as long as possible.

They don't attend these churches because of that far more than because of racial issues.

Not exact matches

James also addressed racial issues in the video, recalling how his house outside of L.A. was vandalized with graffiti that said «n -----.»

But these harassment issues have come under particular scrutiny in 2016 amidst racial tension through the U.S. and after the ailing Twitter was unable to secure acquisition bids from major media companies due to concerns with the quality of the community on Twitter.

Hollywood veterans also told Deadline that Fox Searchlight needs to keep the conversation around the movie focused more on the issue of race at a time when racial tensions in America have been on the rise.

While Jimmy Kimmel generally won the day for his willingness to elevate the issues of gender and racial equity, it was Frances McDormand who deserves the award for bringing a human resources toolkit to the podium with her.

Schultz said that Starbucks hadn't paid enough attention to the issue of racial inequality; the board agreed, but differed over how best to approach the topic more broadly.

Eight days after the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the arrests of two African - American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing when they opted not to order anything has catapulted the issue of racial bias into the national spotlight.

WDN marshals resources for a number of issues — like reproductive justice, racial equity, and economic opportunity — but the cause closest to Hall's heart is civic equality for women.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

We actively seek to expand our role in advancing public policy and producing resources for Northwest leaders and community partners that tackle issues of racial and economic inequality.

It's a welcome thing, to be sure, in a landscape that are largely dominated by men — the lack of gender and racial diversity among VCs and entrepreneurs and even on tech boards has become a hot - button issue in Silicon Valley.

«Most of the paid ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.

Their response has been to promulgate a de facto doctrine of «benign neglect» on the issue of continuing racial inequality.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

His successor, Pius XII, issued an equally powerful encyclical, Summi Pontifactus (1939), which condemned totalitarianism, and openly challenged Nazi racial theories by defending the unity of the human race.

Loki, his «church» was quite literally FOUNDED on the principle that Southern slavery was Biblical and just; further, that «church» has NEVER issued a binding, formal apology for its support of slavery, racial etiquette, and Jim Crow; in fact, they were their most ardent supporters.

In addition Findlay comments that it was also a culture - changing time when an outpouring of support from outside the South in the struggle for racial justice forced this issue toward the beginning of a resolution.

It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity of all races because that truth allows us to treat others as persons.

«I do think there are better alternate ways to fight injustice [than identity politics] and have pushed a model of conversation rather than confrontation as it concerns racial issues,» says Prof Yancey.

I don't feel badly asking whites to engage on issues of racial reconciliation, because I'm asking you to be obedient.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

What if we articulated a commitment to address issues of racial discrimination and oppression openly and publicly?

As a unified family of God, we are empowered to address the racial issues that are afflicting our world.

If whites reject racial preferences as unfair to them, and if politicians campaign on the issue, the problem is construed as a lack of restraint by unscrupulous candidates who are willing to use divisive tactics to achieve their ends.

And we've seen, when issues of racial injustice flare up, vocal pro-lifers wonder why civil rights leaders don't seem as concerned about the injustice of abortion.

The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

Internal Pentecostal relationships are more complex — with splits along racial lines, according to commitment to the Holiness doctrine of sanctification, and even more deeply over the issues of the «Jesus only» doctrines of the Trinity.

This achievement comes from the strong racial universalism of most religions and from the tactic of framing issues in ways that are independent of race.

One major fault in the espoused parallel relationships between Christian Privilege and other systems of systemic inequality that disproportionately impact racial minorities, women and the LGBTQ + community is that religious preference is scarcely, if ever, legal to request as a means of legitimizing documentation for state issued IDs, legal documents, marriage certificates, employment applications, etc..

Back in the 1990s, before Brenda Salter McNeil was a professor and ordained pastor, she founded Salter McNeil & Associates to speak and consult on issues of racial reconciliation in the church.

In part two of a series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks when white Evangelicals will address this issue.

Eight Alabama pastors had penned a statement entitled «A Call for Unity» in which they expressed basic agreement with King regarding integration and Jim Crow, but took issue with his methods, arguing protests and sit - ins represented the sort of «extreme measures» that only incited racial tensions.

In part two of this series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks when white evangelicals will address this issue.

«Does this change the game as it applies to the crushing issues of racial injustice around us?

For the growing churches of the South, the Bible speaks to everyday issues of poverty and debt, famine and urban crisis, racial and gender oppression, state brutality and persecution.

As in The Merchant of Venice, religious issues complicate considerations of race and ethnicity, but Shakespeare's drama again leaves an attentive audience or reader with a powerful realization of the essential humanity of the racial «other.»

One big lesson for me is that issues of racial, gender, cultural or class discrimination are not limited to my own personal beliefs.

Among the arguments for and against school busing, we do not hear much about the fundamental issue of racial alienation.

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

Three of the many issues facing contemporary metropolitan areas impact churches directly: a rapidly growing ethnic and religious pluralism; the ethnic, racial, physical and economic boundaries between city, suburb and country; and the changing economic realities of the postindustrial city.

We talked to Trillia Newbell, a speaker and author whose books include United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity, about how Christians can have productive conversations and take action on issues of racial injustice.

The same can be said for Miller's treatment of Fosdick's stance on issues relating to women and racial justice, the latter subject having an entire chapter devoted to it (chapter 24).