Sentences with phrase «of racial prejudice»

We know that we must address the realities of racial prejudice — but in a room full of junior high kids?

Most people believe that they are largely free of racial prejudice.

The schools can and should be a principal agency for breaking the vicious circle of racial prejudice.

During both of these struggles much scripture was used in defense of racial prejudice and countless lives were lost in the struggles.

However you'll also find some disturbing moments of racial prejudice, along with brutality toward women and children.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britain over the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

Octavia Spencer also stars in The Help, a tale of racial prejudice faced by black domestics.

Set in the deep south during World War II, the quiet, intimate romance plumbs the hideous effects of racial prejudice and honors heroic efforts — all made by women — to make things right.

That's despite nearly half of all Indigenous people reporting to the recent Reconciliation Australia survey that they experience at least one form of racial prejudice and the findings last year of the Ms Dhu coronial inquest that highlighted shocking treatment by police and medical staff.

Sotomayor wrote that the prosecutor «tapped a deep and sorry vein of racial prejudice that has run through the history of criminal justice in our nation,» and that he had attempted to «substitute racial stereotype for evidence.»

Now he stood barely 100 yards from the capital of the old Confederacy, surrounded by a vast sea of racial prejudice.

This should be a powerful message for us in these days after the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, when again we are challenged to address the persistence of racial prejudice and nativism, even in the Church.

This dialectic of feeling operates powerfully in the experience of racial prejudice.

If we find it abhorrent that God commands genocide in jealous anger or out of racial prejudice, then we at least know that we have not entirely lost our moral compass.

Major universities (for example, Dartmouth and the Universities of Michigan and Massachusetts, all of which have been the scene of recent demonstrations and violence) are struggling with overt examples of racial prejudice among their students, whose education has stressed success for oneself and tolerance of others.

It is said, for example, that much of the racial prejudice that develops in each generation is derived by contagion from the elder generation.

Red - faced Sox A sportswriter describes the Boston Red Sox» long and shameful history of racial prejudice

She said Bruce is also part Native - American on both sides of his family, but most of the racial prejudice he experienced was because his father is African - American.

This brand of thinking contends that openly discussing the existence of racial prejudices, either held by individuals or embedded in institutions, is itself a form of racism.

«It would be equally wrong and intolerable if someone who is mentally ill and would benefit from care in hospital did not have that benefit because those charged with such decisions were anxious that they may be accused of racial prejudice.»

It is a searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten.

RACISM — What are the consequences of racial prejudice and false beliefs about the origin of races?

Davis strove to achieve the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice and shifting political territory.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.

This line comes nearly at the end of the 93 - minute - long I Am Not Your Negro, in which we bear witness to a familiar story of racial prejudice and violence — no, not pretty at all — which courses through the veins of the US.

While viewers will sample a variety of Brown's songs, they will also be subjected to scenes of racial prejudice, brutality toward women and children and a disappointing lack of consequences for choices.

The film, which was made for just $ 4.5 million and grossed $ 255 million worldwide, won over audiences and critics for its depiction of racial prejudice.

So, during a time when black integration was a very contested topic, and with their research lab located in Langley, Virginia (a hotbed of racial prejudice), NASA was forced to recruit people of color to fill the positions.

Actor Mos Def stars in Something the Lord Made, a much quieter film where he struggles against the forces of racial prejudice.

Follow along as Cassie Logan, a young black girl, discovers and experiences the injustices of racial prejudice in the American South after the Civil War.

The ever - popular Jodi Picoult makes the list with her examination of racial prejudices and justice, Small Great Things, as well as Crosstalk by Connie Willis, a sci - fi love story about what happens when you mix technology and love.

August 22: Buffalo Soliders: Gone but Not Forgotten Hear the remarkable story of the African - American «Buffalo Soldiers» who served in the Presidio during an era of racial prejudice — and became immortalized in song and cinema.

Citing an episode during the 2006 World Cup, in which a racist slur was directed at Zinedine Zidane — a french footballer of Algerian descent — Rankine notes that «illustrations of this kind of racial prejudice can be multiplied indefinitely», the way a word can be repeated, on a tongue or across a chalkboard.

Luca Guadagnino's lavish queer drama «Call Me By Your Name» topped the best films list, with David Lowery's playfully supernatural «A Ghost Story» and Dee Rees» postwar tale of racial prejudice in the south, «Mudbound,» nipping at its heels.

Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples still experience high levels of racial prejudice and discrimination, and trust between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians remains unacceptably low.

While there is agreement in principle among Christians that all persons are equal before God, the reality of racial prejudice, whether based on biology, geography, education, economics, color, nationality or any other discriminating factor, must be addressed by the church in proclaiming its gospel and putting its own house in order.

I've been told all of my life that we live in a post-racial culture, that my generation is essentially free of racial prejudice.

We see the entangled effects of racial prejudice, misogyny, violence and environmental depredation laid out like the scrambled pieces of a puzzle.

«Our Australian Reconciliation Barometer findings show that in the six months prior to the survey, 46 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, experienced at least one form of racial prejudice,» said Reconciliation Australia Chief Executive Officer, Mr Justin Mohamed.

Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton bring a quiet tenderness to this understated tale of racial prejudice in the Deep South.

Though well acted and beautifully crafted, «Devil in a Blue Dress» falls short of being something special because, although the concept of an African American film noir is commendably original and the background climate - of racial prejudice and the post-WWII hangover in L.A. - is fascinating, the actual mystery is pretty run - of - the - mill.

It's a political film that begins on a local level of racial prejudice and then expands its view as way to observe how such backwards beliefs can infest on a national and international level.

In Australia today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people still experience high levels of racial prejudice and discrimination, resulting in increased anxiety, depression and suicide risk.